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Technics SP-15 Turntable

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RadioMan203

While I know most people have since moved on from vinyl I still have a large collection of media which I hope to slowly restore and convert to something a little more modern to allow me to enjoy this music - and before you ask quite a bit of my music isn't available on CD so it's not like I can just go out and buy it. Besides, the way I feel about the RIAA lately I don't want to get them any more of my hard earned money.

Here's the rub. I picked up a Technics SP-15 turntable and matching 309 arm from a radio station getting rid of it. I know it's probably highly unlikely I will be able to find the original Technics base for it so I'm hoping that maybe somebody has a source for the mounting template so I can build up a base or perhaps mount it into my studio countertop. While the likelihood of finding somebody with the template is probably close to non-existent I figured I'd pose my dilemma here in case someone has one squirreled away in a reference library. Any assist would be greatly appreciated.
 
I just picked up two more SP-15s + tonearms plus a zillion records from a defunct station that I decomissioned. The studio furniture had cut-outs in the desk and the turntables are mounted into 10mm steel plate with suspension springs on the four corners.

Mounting these units isn't hard fortunately. All you need is a round hole so the base will fit through and allow the deck to sit flush, and a couple of mounting holes to secure the deck down with.
If you wish, I can take one of the decks out and draw up the template from the base - then work out the dimensions/spacings etc and post back here.
I have seen some of the genuine Technics bases on Ebay from time to time but they fetch big money, especially if they are in mint condition.
 
Bill DeFelice said:
While I know most people have since moved on from vinyl I still have a large collection of media which I hope to slowly restore and convert to something a little more modern to allow me to enjoy this music - and before you ask quite a bit of my music isn't available on CD so it's not like I can just go out and buy it. Besides, the way I feel about the RIAA lately I don't want to get them any more of my hard earned money.
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Careful, Bill, it will turn into an addiction. :)

I've been transferring all my records and tapes over to digital. My goal was suppose to be last year, but I'm still looking at probably close to 500 albums and close to 1,000 tapes.

Where the addition comes in is by using tools such as Sony's restoration or PSP's tools. You take that 45, which may have a length of 3 minutes, but after using all the tools at your disposal you end up spending 30 to 45 minutes per song to get all the noise off it, and correct pops, clicks, and EQ.

On the other hand, there has been some great tunes restored that I remember, but are seldom played on radio.
 
Just think in 5 years we're no longer using LP's, CD's and tapes. Ipods and MP3's will be obsolete by then as well. Instead we'll have some fancy new gadget that engineers are hard at work on right now...

;D
 
Studio1: Thanks for the offer, but I also have part of the counter where the turntable was previously mounted. I was just hoping that a "clean" template would make things a little more accurate when I go to make a custom base (or perhaps when I finally build up my custom furniture I'll do the same sort of custom mounting.

Fred: I'm already there as far as the addiction goes. I have a older SL-1200 that I had been using to transfer music - mostly 45 singles as I'm trying to either get the genuine article that was played on the radio or if the reference single is too badly worn I'll use it as a template to attempt to edit a clean version from a cd source. I've been using the Waves Restoration X suite and I've been getting some killer results. It's worth taking up to an hour to restore and re-EQ a piece of vinyl to have it sound primo! In fact I buy more vinyl now than when I was a kid ... and I was on the radio back when I was 14, thanks to my community FM station at the high school.

Dndsh237: Soon engineers will just make a socket on the side of a person's head where they can listen to music!
 
I have a copy of the service manual for the SP-15 at the workshop but I won't be back there for a couple of days. I am trying to remember if it has the template detail in it.

I'll check when I get back there.
 
At one point I actually downloaded a copy of the manual in PDF form and the template wasn't in there. My hunch is that it probably was a separate piece of paper that was used as an overlay.
 
Bill DeFelice said:
Dndsh237: Soon engineers will just make a socket on the side of a person's head where they can listen to music!
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Hope the come in lots of fashionable styles and colors. ;D
 
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