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Author Topic: Technics SL-10 Turntable John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 03-17-2010 11:17 PM                     I have been given an SL-10 and it seems to work very well indeed mechanically at least...except that there's no sound coming out of it. How do you get these apart to take a look inside? I have undone the four screws next to the turntable, but I don't want to force anything and it seems there may be more to undo but I can't see it.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 03-17-2010 11:21 PM                     Mechanic wise, it's okey - wonder if the cartridge preamp circuitry has bit it, or leads from the cartridge itself ... as you say - wanting to find out how to rip the thing apart.. Linear drive turntables are very touchy animals by themselves. I have a SONY linear turntable that I had to baby and adjust to get the tonearm to track accurately .... - monte  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 03-17-2010 11:40 PM                     It looks like a beaut, Monte. Heavy bugger though...weighs 6kg (13lbs).  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-18-2010 12:29 AM                     Whoa... I used to repair those when I was a bench tech for Panasonic! Mark  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-18-2010 11:23 AM                        I used to sell those. It was one of the most fun products to demonstrate. You could pick it up, set it on its side, etc. while it was playing. People would look at it in amazement, but then buy a regular one due the price, I suppose.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 03-18-2010 02:11 PM                     Here's a wiki page on the unit. Quite an elaborate unit being compared to the Bang and Olfsen and the Marantz units.. And by the content of this Wiki discussion, I bet that the cartridge preamp, which is required due to having a moving coil cartridge intead of the more conventional moving magnet cartridge is used, had gone kaput on this unit. -Monte -Monte  |  IP: Logged Gerard S. Cohen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 975 From: Forest Hills, NY, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 03-19-2010 03:00 PM                     I have a new Audio-Technica AT-LP120-USB Direct Drive Professional turntable (a birthday gift from my wife.) After connecting it, I couldn't get sound until I found an almost invisible pre-amp slide switch hidden in the rear, in the default "off" position for those using an external pre-amp. Turned "on", it works beautifully.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 03-19-2010 05:27 PM                     Hi Gerard Any switches on it have been switched, but thanks for the advice. I have found a repair place that'll do a free quote so I'm going to take it there.  |  IP: Logged Damien Taylor Master Film Handler Posts: 493 From: Perth, Western Australia Registered: Apr 2007 posted 03-19-2010 10:05 PM                     John, I use an SL-J3 and the cover is released with four plastic rivets that come apart in 3 pieces, does the 10 have these. The 10 was the king of the Technics jacket size linear trackers, so maybe the build is a little better than the J3.  |  IP: Logged

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