J.J.Jimmink

J.J. Jimmink's System

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

phono pre

Power amp, low section

power amp

preamp

Room acoustics adjustments

CD player: Sony 555

speaker

R3 skeleton turntable

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,

R3 skeleton turntable project

back to TD150 project page

Date: 4/27/06, Netherlands

J.J. Jimmink's TD150 based "Skeleton" Thorens

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.