Lenco L75-S16

ABSOLUTELY NOT ! ! !

Your L75-S16 turntable is the ultimate, classic, end-of-production-forever heavy platter Lenco. It was manufactured only in Italy from 1982-1984, and has the newest and most refined components (and the least degraded by age parts - 35 years max, as opposed to the ones from the very early sixties).

So DO NOT sell it for $300-$400 dollars to someone who will chop it up for parts because you've priced it like an old beater Lenco. These are rare, rare, rare, I'd never even seen one before (I live in the USA) until I ran across your AGON post.

Start at $800 on eBay USA (maybe hight, and see where it goes from there.

Gee, Scott.  The thread is 7 months old. What are the odds that "autre" has not already sold his Lenco?  Small, I would guess.

But apart from being made in Italy, which might make the L75 S16 "rare" from a collectible point of view, how does that fact make it better or more desirable, vis a vis performance, than a typical Swiss-made L75?  You say it has the "heavy platter".  Heavier than what platter?  I don't doubt you; I am just curious.  I have a late model Swiss-made L75 that I bought NOS several years ago; it has the 8-9 lb platter that I thought was the heaviest they made for the L75.

It's no more desirable other than the fact it has zero hours on it, and the much better S-shaped tone arm. Same platter as all other heavy-platter Lencos.

P.S., a NOS Bogen B62 just sold on ebay for a bit under $450 a few weeks back, but I didn't bid on it because I already have two B62s and a B61 ;-)