Reason for buying old/classic turntables

Ketchup, I would say there's nothing very great about the build quality of a Lenco L75. The drive system is completely novel and full of potential problems, but it works very very well, if you perform a few mods here and there and get rid of the stock tonearm. As you say, "they simply got lucky".

Lew,
I disagree. I believe they knew exactly what they were doing. The tapered motor shaft for example. Infinately adjustable speed.

But, then again, to each their own. I have already said Lenco's aren't the end all and be all to analog, but then again, I don't believe anthing is.

Sorry, I'm not going to pay more for a tt/arm and cart than I did my GMC truck and Harly combined.

>>>Walker Proscenium...are simply better than their older counterparts.

>>>Any fool would know that.

How would you know? It is not like you have a Walker Proscenium at home. Ignorant, arrogant and foolish is worse than just being foolish.

How low is your IQ, just wondering, as you have a "need" to define anyone that disagreed with your viewpoint as "a fool"?

Wow, somebody didn't get any Xmas presents this year I guess.

Old tables are cool, they sound different for whatever reason not better or worse, just different. If you sell new tables you don't want people buying old ones, but the sound is simply a matter of taste. I don't have an old table right now, but it's only because of space, not due to any type of belief in their inherent inferiority.

I have a good buddy with a Garrard 301 with an old Quad preamp into a McIntosh 225 (sorry it's the new version) and 30+ year old Klipschorns. That is one of the most musical experiences we get when we all get together. Very nice synergy with all of the gear. If you put on a rock album, say The Who Live at Leeds, or Led Zeppelin II, you need to strap in, because man there is some IMPACT there. Not a good system, a great one. Better than a Clearaudio Statement with associated VTL/Conrad Johnson/Soundlab/Wilson Audio, etc.....

I don't really know even though I have had the chance to hear some of those wonderful items, all I know, is that it sounds REALLY GOOD.

I love the old stuff, sounds smooth. Newer is not always better. CD's and digital don't sound as good as analog no matter how much audio dealers tried to convince us of that when they wanted everyone to buy new gear. Same may be said with old turntables, newer is not always better. Just because a material or process is new, does not make it better. I like the approach of some manufaturers such as Teres and MerrilScalia (sp?) not reinventing, but using what's there and microscopically improving.

It's all subjective.

Norm:
Albeit for me, witty, useless, or erroneous info doesn't cut it for most of us. If one can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen! There is so much misinformation flying around, someone has to get a handle on it, especially for the newcomers. Who by the way may not, or can not, spend the money most of us have on the majority of expensive audio crap! Happy New Year!