Thorens record deck

Apr 01, 2011 37 Replies

I had a request earlier today, from my wife, if I knew where I could find a connector for this deck. I spoke to the the owner and found that it is square about the size of an Oxo cube and takes the mains power in and sends it out to somewhere else. I know there is not much information and I have googled for an answer, but until I can get any info.



Does anyone have any experience on the record deck? It might be Monday before I can post back.



Dave


Take great care, some are 16V AC, some are 110V AC,and some are 240V AC motors. Sometimes with almost the same model numbers.

Manuals and links to spares here:-

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Which one? I have a TD160C - I can peer underneath it for you if you provide a better description of what you need.

(Anyone other than me ever wondered why Thorens didn't sue Linn over the Sondek?)

The Linn Sondek. It's a turntable, much prized by "audiophiles". It appears to be identical to a Thoren TD160.

I used mine last night. Listened to Pink Floyd's "Meddle".

I'll get around to listening to it ... one of these days

I have a TD160. Bought it in Edgware Road and carried it all the way home to East Kent, many years ago. I listen to "Meddle" too.

Who? What? I have a TD125 II. I know this can do 110/240 and 50/60Hz 'cos it went to the States with me but I no longer recall what it looks like underneath. Been too long since I powered it up.

Same here! Got the 33/303 off an unappreciative brother-in-law a long time ago.

Oh really? Never heard of it. I bought Quad 33/303 in 1970, and Thorens TD125/SME arm/V15 at pretty much the same time. IMF monitors in 1974. Quad FM tuner in 1986 (upgraded the pre-amp then, too), and haven't looked back. It all sounded good enough that I've not bothered to look at anything since.

I never liked the 33/303. The older stuff's far better imho.

NT

Rich barstard.

Good grief.

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It all sounded good enough that I've not bothered to look

That's more or less how I felt until my Arcam Alpha 9 developed the well known input selector switch failure. Spares are no longer available and DIY measures have failed, so I needed a new amp. Bought an Arcam Alpha

10 on eBay a couple of weeks ago. This seems to have reawakened the hi-fi lust, so I've been surfing for stuff ever since. My, but there's a load of c*ck written about hi-fi these days.

Its been like that for a long time now. Linn started that sort of crap hype..

But at least they don't charge over a thousand quid for a power cable like Russ Andrews...oh no, they seem to have a premium range now..

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