Joel:
Too bad I didn't catch this thread earlier! Great to hear that someone else is giving the SL12x0 another try at an audiophile level. I actually just bought an SL1210 M5G used from Craigslist and replaced my MMF5 with it and the speed control as well as bass was a drastic improvement. There was something that was just lax and lazy in the way the MMF5 sounded that just bothered me. The reason that I held out for the M5G was because the M5G was supposed to have slightly better tonearm wire than the stock MK2 as well as a better stock interconnect. But gosh they're hard to find secondhand! Currently i'm running a dynavector cartridge inside it with just a stanton headshell. Something cheap I picked up at Guitar Center.
On a side note also, since I bought 2 turntable ( I bought it from a DJ) I lent one out to a friend of mine who is using it with a Dynaco PAS3 pre and 2- MC275 on McIntosh Speakers, and he's kicking me because he likes it much more than his 2700 dollar Pro-ject space deck. Haha! He's still running the DJ needles on it but he's going to mount his own cartridge on it this weekend hopefully.
But with regards to modding my M5G, I think the first thing I will look into is having the fluid damper installed just because from reading the posts and what not, this seems to be like the single greatest improvement that can be made from all the mods that KAB offers. But again, I will need to touch base with Kevin on this just to make sure.
Thanks again for the post and I look forward to hearing about the results on the damper soon!
Too bad I didn't catch this thread earlier! Great to hear that someone else is giving the SL12x0 another try at an audiophile level. I actually just bought an SL1210 M5G used from Craigslist and replaced my MMF5 with it and the speed control as well as bass was a drastic improvement. There was something that was just lax and lazy in the way the MMF5 sounded that just bothered me. The reason that I held out for the M5G was because the M5G was supposed to have slightly better tonearm wire than the stock MK2 as well as a better stock interconnect. But gosh they're hard to find secondhand! Currently i'm running a dynavector cartridge inside it with just a stanton headshell. Something cheap I picked up at Guitar Center.
On a side note also, since I bought 2 turntable ( I bought it from a DJ) I lent one out to a friend of mine who is using it with a Dynaco PAS3 pre and 2- MC275 on McIntosh Speakers, and he's kicking me because he likes it much more than his 2700 dollar Pro-ject space deck. Haha! He's still running the DJ needles on it but he's going to mount his own cartridge on it this weekend hopefully.
But with regards to modding my M5G, I think the first thing I will look into is having the fluid damper installed just because from reading the posts and what not, this seems to be like the single greatest improvement that can be made from all the mods that KAB offers. But again, I will need to touch base with Kevin on this just to make sure.
Thanks again for the post and I look forward to hearing about the results on the damper soon!