TEAC TN-400 Magnafloat

[speakerman1]

I found one of these rare TTs. No tonearm. I have till tomorrow to make up my mind. It is a very nice looking table with custom plinth. Don't know if the pic will come out or you can see it

https://mail-attachment.googleuserc...349727465359&sads=3BXBuMYAwXmgB9fyEHX1Sixlv5M

 

[speakerman1]

http://www.vinylengine.com/library/teac/tn-400.shtml

 

[Fast Forward]

pretty nifty but do you really need another TT

 

[speakerman1]

Do I need anything? For the price this was offered to me can I pass it up? the cart I got the other week cost more than the TT.I do look at things as investments.

 

[laatsch55]

Who's upper torso are we seeing in your avatar there Larrt??

 

[speakerman1]

Bottlehead Cap girl. LOL

 

[speakerman1]

It arrived today. Plus some other things. Rotation going on. LOL Out the door, in the door. LOL

 

[speakerman1]

First impression. Heavy. Very quiet. I'll take a pic of the bottom. A Grace 707 would be very nice on it. Jer wait till you feel this thing. Think I will do a Piano Black Finish on it. Polish all mounting hardware. Think I'll go asking about a Grace today. Do you think the Black will look good? One thing about a lacquer finish. Very easy to scratch. Very easy to see mistakes at that gloss. You can't fix one spot it is start sanding. Someone asked why I liked only straight arms. This is what I wrote to another friend.

People think I'm crazy about the straight arms. I like low mass arms. The others look like bent pipe. The straight are fragile delicate. They dance on the LP. It looks like it would be fun to do. You can see it just track so smoothly. About to try another preamp I acquired. You guys let that Nikko go for 150.00. Dumb. Thanks Joe. I don't forget. Thanks. Quit buying speakers. You can get very nice gear for what you are throwing out. If they don't do what you want. Sell it try another. Get the amps the way you want them. Keep your speakers. It may take years to get the amps you want. The best thing I have bought is the Dynaco. For the price I would walk a country mile for it. The Dynaco stays. Gotta love a needle in a hay stack. You find an amp you like. Keep it. You have a base you like and for the price you can do some little upgrades.

 

[simon moon]

Teac TN-400s are wonderful turntables! I own one myself.

I just recently mounted mine in a plinth made of isophthalic resin filled with bentonite clay. In other words, boat resin and cat litter. The damping and resonance characteristics for this combo are better than hardwoods, Panzerholtz, aluminum, acrylic.

http://qualia.webs.com/plinths.htm

After mounting it in this plinth (from hardwood), it is quieter, more detailed, and has a bigger soundstage. The improvements are not trivial. I also mounted the transformer into an outboard case connected by a 4 wire umbilical. I believe this also contributed to lowering the noise floor.

Making the plinth is not a trivial process. A mold has to be built, that will most likely be destroyed during the process no matter how much mold release is used.

Do you mind if I ask how much you got your for?

 

[laatsch55]

I'm intrigued by the bigger soundstage with the plinth you built. Any idea why??

 

[NavLinear]

What Lee said.

 

[simon moon]

I'm intrigued by the bigger soundstage with the plinth you built. Any idea why??

Since the plinth is so good at damping unwanted vibrations at all frequencies, there is less to get in the way of whatever is being retrieved from the record.

I believe this not only accounts for the decreased noise floor and the increased detail, but more ambient information being retrieved from the record. More ambient information, equals better reproduction of the space that the music was recorded in, equals better soundstage.

 

[laatsch55]

Thank you, just logical stuff then. How refreshing. Don't see any flaw in your reasoning eithre, when ya think about it for a second, very plausible. thanks again.

 

[orange]

Speaking of the OP, Did we ever get he of the half-nekkid ninja babe avatar back in VFR?

 

[NavLinear]

Speaking of the OP, Did we ever get he of the half-nekkid ninja babe avatar back in VFR?

I was wondering the same thing.

 

[speakerman1]

I read about the kitty litter plinth. I am going to try a few tricks. I'm not use to pouring something this big. I have a mixer. Drilling your holes and everything if you mess up mix some resin pour in your mistake and redrill. Will make the arm board separate. I have always liked gunmetal gray metallic.

 

[Skywavebe]

I got one in a box ready to sell. What did the other guy get for the one you have?

This unit was tested previous to a sale and found to not hold speed and with no schematics anywhere that I can find, it might be a good one to try to fix. I will deal with it in my spare time. Those of you who know my business- What spare time?
Tape deck repairs are increasing all the time- another TSR-8 is expected to arrive today.
There just are not enough hours to service all these decks by one guy.

 

[speakerman1]

400.00 with plinth

 

[speakerman1]

Big Honken Motor. LOL