-edible zone-
circa April, 2008
- Turntable fabricated by JJ. uses the platter bearing from Teres Audio that can be purchased separately.
- Platter: Lathe turned from solid aluminum
- base materials: solid marble with solid aluminum spacers
- motor: DC from Scheu
- motor pod and pulley: machined from aluminum
- belt: #4 silk bead cord (as was used on the original Teres)
circa May, 2007
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phono pre -- Power Amp low section
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Short discription:
TT: R3 skeleton plinth
by user510 (aka Steve...)
SME 309 arm with SME V silverwire/
Audio-technica cartridge
Phonopre: Tube phonopre with ecc83
telefunken smoothplates and seperate power
section
Digital: Sony SCD 555 super audio CD player
Pre-amplifier:
Amplifier is based on old french post-tubes (PTT2s) with telefunken AZ1
mesh rectifiers.
Power amplifier high section:
Amplifier based on KR audio 300B-xls tubes. Tubes used are some German
post triodes, american majestic globe G-27 and also telefunken AZ1
mesh plate and #83 mercury-vapor rectifiers. Home made and designed
by "triodedick"
Power amplifier low section (active)
UcD double mono made and designed by hypex
Speakers: Avalon
look-alikes with accuton and eton drivers. Home made and
veneered
with walnut cluster-burl. Weighted aproximately 175 lb. a piece....
Some room adjustments because room is a little too small and lows
are
pretty much.........
Rack: Also homemade. Stainless
steel welded skeleton with shells of
multi-layer wood sand
filled. 'Don't know how heavy it is because its
made in pieces.
All cables home made. Complete signal path is silver wired.
It took me about 5 years to build the complete set-up. During this
period the system was regularly out of order......that was the hard
part.
Wishes for the future:
cartridge upgrade
new DIY turntable ( because its so much fun to build.....) Teres
maybe?
Greetz from Holland,
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R3 skeleton turntable project
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TD150 project page
Date: 4/27/06, Netherlands
J.J.
Jimmink's TD150 based "Skeleton" Thorens
(click thumbnail for full size image)
The platters, spindle and motor are Thorens TD150 MK II items. The Tonearm is an SME 309 with magnesium arm tube. The turntable is based on a concept sketch found in the Diy Dept. within these pages using Aluminum plate, PVC sheet, three short lengths of automotive heater hose, the rubber parts from the TD150 suspension and miscellaneous threaded fasteners.
The motor pod is machined from solid aluminum stock and houses the
Thorens 16-pole AC synchronous motor.
Top view showing the drive system. The standard Thorens drive
layout is retained.
