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Lenco owners - arm/cart discussion,suggestions?

Curious to hear what arms others are using on their Lencos, and experiences they may have particularly with MC carts.

I currently have a Lenco L75 with custom plinth and 2 armboards (one with RB300), along with a Nottingham Spacedeck/Spacearm.

Has anyone tried the Spacearm on the Lenco? Any feedback is much appreciated.

What other arms are people using, particularly with low output moving coils?

I would really like to try my van den Hul Condor on the Lenco for a real gauge of the table's performance. While I feel the RB300 is a good match on the table, it will not work well with the Condor.

Just curious of other people's experiences before I drill the other armboard for an A/B of the Spacearm/Condor on the Spacedeck vs. Lenco.

Am considering other arms (SME V, Graham Phantom or 2.2) so any experiences of these with the Lenco would be helpful.

Have also considered something like a Shelter 501 for the Rega arm. Any experiences with low output MCs, RB300, and the Lenco?
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lewm
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Mikey, I don't know why the Denon 103R would be a popular choice to use with a Lenco. It's much more important to match cartridge and tonearm. Once you've done that, you can use that pair on any turntable. Different tts will add different sonic signatures to the basic signature of the cartridge/tonearm combo. The whole point of relating the experiences of myself and Dopogue is that anything goes with the Lenco, or any other topflight tt for that matter. You probably do see a lot of Denons on Lencos, because the Denons are per se among the most popular cartridges maybe of all time. Sorry if I sound too adamant; it's just my $.02.
lewm
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I've heard Dopogue's system several times, and I can back up all of what he says. I liked his sound so much that I invested in a Nantais Lenco too. I use a Triplanar with Koetsu Urushi on my L75, and I am very pleased with the result. The combo blew away my previous Notts Hyperspace, for example. So you can see that though Dopogue and I use very different tonearms and cartridges, we are both pleased with the performance of the Lenco cum giant plinth, which goes to support what Mosin wrote. Usually, you should believe anything Mosin says about turntables.
lewm
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Scompracer, I used the very same Triplanar on my Hyperspace that I now use on my Nantais/Lenco. To mount the Triplanar on the H'space, I needed to have Tom Fletcher (Nottingham Analog boss and mentor) make me a special platform that raised the tonearm base to an acceptable height.

As to the question about feet for the Nantais/Lenco, when I bought mine, Jean had some threaded brass cones that were made for his projects. I bought a set of 3 for some extra dough, $160, I think. I've no reason at all to believe they would be any better than the Mapleshade cones or any other solidly made cones, but having the threaded attachment to the plinth is nice for height adjustment.
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