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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!
mario_b
abill
80 posts
 
It's nice to hear from you Jean !
I have a 10" Lathe in my basement and I would like to make a new spindle for my Lenco. Does anyone have any info on materials or design of Jean's spindle ?
I have a Birch base Lenco with a JMW 10.5i and Dynacetor XX-2 cartridge.This is my first turntable and it sounds very good ! I am still dialing in the cartridge but even with a very small cartridge adjustment with azimith or vta it makes a big difference in the sound.
This is my favorite website.

Thanks to all !!
Abill
willbewill
15 posts
 
Hi Jean

Good to hear from you again and that your Lenco story carries on even when you're not here.

regards
malcolm
gp49
52 posts
 
Latest from Arthur Salvatore on his auditioning of a Jean Nantais Lenco is that his prior audition was with a Lenco that wasn't quite up to snuff. It had a problem with the idler spring.

Jean Nantais fixed that and the result:

"This is what I can state at this time: With the turntable and tonearm now optimized (though maybe the tonearm is still not "perfect"), this combination is definitely the finest I've ever heard in my system (or anywhere else)."

Further, he says that the performance of the Jean Nantais Lenco is "unprecedented".

This means a carefully tweaked Lenco just might be the best turntable in the world!

Full update is at Salvatore's HighEndAudio site, or on Lenco Heaven.
mikeyc8
174 posts
 
That article was such a tease! I can't wait to read the final results. If the new, full out Nantais can beat the Forsell and make Arthur say its the best he's ever heard, that's quite something as he's a hypercritical and fussy reviewer.
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cleopatra52
98 posts
 
I don't need Arthur to tell me how good one of Jean's Lencos really is. Having owned and used many great turntables in the last 40 years, including Linn, Oracles, SOTAs, Maplenoll Ariadne Signature, and (lastly) a VPI TNT, I can definitely state that my Nantais Lenco is the best that I have owned. Incredible dynamics, huge soundstage, jet black background etc., etc., this tt is simply superb. And I don't even have one of the super heavy tables that Jean sold to Arthur. Now, if Jean could just come up with a permanent fix to that resonating spring to which Arthur refers (a fix I understand Jean has developed) Lenco supremacy will be assured.
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