Yeah, Lew, but "Spring will really hang you up the most."
Geez, what's happened to this thread. |
Welcome back! I hope, I hope, I hope :-) |
Same old same old, eh? If it weren't for Jean, you wouldn't be here. Neither would I, or anyone else. Time to leave. Dave |
There's no way that you can use the inside rim of the Lenco platter. It has vertical extrusions all around. Mine anyway (L75). |
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Mario, you've done good work here, both in bringing the original thread back to life and in helping to keep it going. This should not be a thankless task. THANK YOU! Dave |
Given that I hate, hate, hate clamps, I'm not real objective about this. I use a Boston Audio Mat I on my replinthed Lenco, which means there's precious little spindle length available above that mat. Bought a Souther "Clever" clamp for those rare dished LPs that tend to float a little on the Boston Audio, and it was just awful sounding. I'm now using a rubber washer from the hardware store that provides enough pressure at the spindle to hold the record in place, and that works fine. |
Hey, good for you Gadfly. Your next assignment: Learn to spell his name :-) |
You're not gonna believe this, Oregon, but my current favorite arm/cart on a JN-replinthed Lenco L75 had a TOTAL brand new cost of $340. It's the 12-inch cherry wood tonearm sold here on Audiogon for $200, bearing a Pickering TL-2S offered for years by a U.K. seller for $140 (unfortunately he's out of them). I'll probably go back at some point to my $3500 (MSRP) rig, nameless for now, but the el-cheapo combo is top dog. Dave |
Mario, wouldn't using the RS-A1 limit you to those carts that can be mounted from underneath (i.e., not the one with already-threaded mounting holes)? I guess you could always ream out the holes on the RS-A1, but ...
Dave |
Mario, that RS-A1 thread on LL is a hoot. Eight pages already, good grief. They keep trying to make sense of the arm and some seem to think the pivoting head follows the grooves sorta like an offset-head arm. Nope. I think you just have to recognize that nothing about the arm makes sense and yet it sounds fantastic, and until you can ignore the disconnect, you're in trouble:-)
Dave |
Johnk, if any of your friend's stash are the armless Lenco's, I'd go with one of those. Then you don't have to do an arm-ectomy. |
Jean is staying in Greece for another week. |
He'll be back in a little over a week, or so he told me today (11/4). Dave |
Super-density isn't necessarily a good thing. I recently discovered that the ipe (Brazilian Ironwood) armboard I had made from my replinthed Lenco was dulling the sound to an extraordinary degree. Replacing it with an oak (and now purpleheart) armboard did wonders to open up the sonics. I wouldn't have believed it. Dave |
Clarification please, Johnwdt. You say the tweak is FREE. How can that be? |
But they still have to pay for the kit itself, right? |
Won't work, Lew. Unless the hole is precisely positioned per Jean's template, the thread will run into stuff and the weight will not have space in which to move up and down. |
Oh, there's an improvement all right. I'm still getting a handle on it in my own system via several cartridge swaps, after installing the kit a few days ago. Main areas of improvement I've noticed are clarity/openness and dynamics and ESPECIALLY on the reissue 45 RPM jazz classics from Acoustic Sounds and Music Masters. I liken it to getting a new and better phonostage. NOT subtle. |
No idea, sorry. Just used the brass weight that was in Jean's kit, and I can't remove it easily now that the TT is back in place. |
Re installing Jean's TJN mod kit, I did it by myself in a few hours, and I'm almost 82. A little tricky in spots, but I don't see why you would have any trouble. Good luck, Dave |
