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Posting an obvious question and then being riled to the point of resorting to transference upon hearing the answer could also result in being plenty smacked in the gob. Eh.

Crem, take it as an attack if you are that defensive. YOU seemed to be saying that folks at NASA were testing the efficacy of steam cleaning vinyl records. No? If they were doing this as part of a taxpayer funded activity, I consider it a waste of money. If you are just talking about people who happen to work at NASA who are doing some sort of home testing, I'd only ask, so what? That's all.

Apologies, my post above obviously was intended for another thread.

There is a big difference between not liking the Lenco and not liking a reality-twisting gasbag. Disdaining one and appreciating the other seems to be widely practiced.

The Lenco has a pronounced bass boost that is a little fast and heavy, a warmer, livelier midrange that may cause snare drums and percussion instruments to leap out in stark contrast to the background music, and a pronounced rolled off top end that tends to take some of the life out of the music and reduces the subtle room interactions that are present on the recording. This provides slam, impact, and a snap to every recording you might want to throw at it but it is not an honest reproducer. These issues may also be arm, cartridge or set-up related. It’s not an exact science here.

Be careful, Rick Hopkins. It is funny that when someone early in the original Lenco thread said something almost exactly the same, the guy was battered and ridiculed for being some kind of an insect and dismissed as a trouble maker. I suppose when a person actually has been or will be face to face with someone who speaks the truth as they find it, it is not so easy to be so flippantly dismissive. On the other side of the coin, the same thing happened to the guy that suggested using epoxy when gluing the plinth and the top plate right at the beginning. Dismissal and condescension. Now it appears to be a state of the art inclusion in the World of Lenco.

And my Gigantic Lenco sounds much better now than it ever has before, thanks to the experience with Rick, which paid unexpected dividends in learning more about Lenco mechanisms, and the success of various tonearm/cartridge combos in differing systems (i.e. don't assume that what works in one system will work in another), a great learning experience!

Mr. Nantais. You have written page after page after page of your opinions regarding the reproduction of sound among many components. The relative accuracy of such opinions, obviously, is wholly dependent on your having a good and trusted “ear” for sound. So let me now get this straight. Are just NOW realizing that what arm and pickup combos work in one system may not work so well in another? Have you not been able to hear marked differences before or have you just not bothered comparing the same arm and pickup combos on a variety of tables?

Never quite understood whether they hate the message or the messenger, anyway.

You're kidding, right?