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Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II

“For those who want the moon but can't afford it or those who can afford it but like to have fun and work with their hands, I'm willing to give out a recipe for a true high-end 'table which is easy to do, and fun to make as sky's the limit on design/creativity! The cost of materials, including 'table, is roughly $200 (depending, more or less), and add to that a Rega tonearm. The results are astonishing. I'll even tell/show you how to make chipboard look like marble and fool and impress all your friends. If there's interest I'll get on with this project, if not, I'll just continue making them in my basement. The next one I make will have a Corian top and have a zebra stripe pattern! Fun! Any takers?”

The Lead in “Da Thread” as posted by Johnnantais - 2-01-04

Let the saga continue. Sail on, oh ships of Lenco!
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ronnie_ericsson
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Heh. I believe there's a metaphysical odd-tonearm-connection here.

I've got:
RS-A1
Maplenoll
Moerch UP-4 gold-colored (broken)
Mayware Formula IV (admittedly on your recommendation)

That red plinth made me laugh. It's huuuuge! :)
ronnie_ericsson
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The UP-4 worked about 10-15 years ago.
I thought it was a wobbly and silly tonearm! :)

Thorens TD321 + Moerch + Ortofon MC20 Super was my first serious TT. I preferred the Maplenoll Athena.

I took the UP-4 apart. The Thorens is in pieces.. I actually tried to take the MC20 Super apart too, and broke it I think... I have half-broken Goldring 1022 stylus from that time too. The Athena is in pieces. Haha! I was very bad at putting things together after having had a look inside! Many terrible in-cee-dents :D
ronnie_ericsson
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Dang Jean, that's one awesome looking contraption!!
ronnie_ericsson
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You've always talked about the importance of mass, yet you didn't do the obvious and put the white Lenco on the red plinth!? Christ-mass plinth! :-P

I sort of forgot, but will send the stylus to poor Dave in the beginning of the happy new year!

Merry Christmas all Lenco-thread-ers!
ronnie_ericsson
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Goughary: The thread is called M4. Length depends on how thick your plinth is (and how deep into it the bolts go).
ronnie_ericsson
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Hey Jean,

I have some ? about your RS-A1, because I might be selling mine.

Does yours have a slight ground-hum-problem, when you turn the volume up and touch the metal parts?

I think I removed a little grounding-cable that was attached to a screw at the bottom of the armbase.
I did it because the whole arm was actually resting on the head of that little screw! Not stable. Does yours stand on that head too?

BTW: I live only a few miles away from the guy who constructed your Audio Innovations amp. :-)
I believe he likes that particular model.
ronnie_ericsson
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I just want post #500 :)

Perhaps I can say something Lenco related...
I'm fiddling with a Kenwood KA 7300 which has two phono inputs. Perhaps today I'll spin some rekkids on the Technics, and maybe gather the gumption to put Mayware back on Lenco-on-stilts.
ronnie_ericsson
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An easy way to attach armboards
Two threaded neodymium magnets per board. It snaps like glue to the top plate.

Quick 'n' dirty L75 on magnet pillars

The 2-armed skeleton Lenco
ronnie_ericsson
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A new white one is born.
It sounds wonderful with the Mayware arm and Grace F-9 cartridge. What a difference VTA makes with this one! That's been a lot of fun to learn and play with.

Pic
Big pic

It is an untweaked L75 that just sits loosely on stilts (screws) on top of a super heavy "sand stone" plinth with some white paint splashed on.

Now I have some fiddling to do with my plastic Technics 3210 + Adcom cartridge to see if it can catch up :)
ronnie_ericsson
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I did a little research and am not so sure this guy made the mkIII version. Perhaps the mark I.
Anyway, if you'd like to ask him something about Audio Innovations you can try contacting member "Erik Andersson" on this forum: http://www.hififorum.nu/forum/default.asp

Don't know if I explained so well.. that screw (if your RS-A1 has one) is on the underside of the arm base, and is only an internal connection between arm "pillar" and base I think. Not for connecting an external ground wire to the phono stage.
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