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| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Wow, Jean, the trip to Cyprus is coming right up! Is everything working out? Do you expect to be able to get online and report back in near-real time on your adventures with Srajan or will we all have to wait until your global wanderings land you ... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II So, Jean, the ticket to Greece has been bought! I'm betting you're going to work out this visit to Srajan Ebaen, become fast creative-rebel friends, and make idler wheel history. | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Since helping Jean connect with Srajan, I've been spending so much time listening to records on the Lenco that I'm not keeping up with Da Thread! But I want to put in my 2-bits on a week-old topic - how low-output moving coil cartridges work on th... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II This history class is great! Thanks Jean and Colin. I feel toward this conversation something like I felt when I discovered jazz. I just played rock 'n roll back in the 1970s, with no awareness at all of jazz. It was wonderful to get into jazz lat... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II My own limited experience parallels what you're saying, Jean. When I "upgraded" (I thought) from a beat up old Rek-O-Kut to a VPI HW-19 Jr., I was disturbed to find the VPI wasn't as good in just the areas you emphasize - PRaT, SLAM, bass, and ges... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Thanks for the full reply and the history. For those of us who have come into this thread more recently, and now don't have access to the early years of the conversation, this is really interesting background. You and some of the other early pione... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II "Perfect Sound Forever" does make the point! Of course CDs do have advantages of size and weight, click-the-remote convenience, lack of wear, programmability, etc. that helped them take over the mass market. But "perfect sound"? NOT! Still, I'm no... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II That's fascinating! You're asserting that when the new LP-12 was becoming all-the-rage, the then current production Lencos (at least the GL 78) actually had better rumble figures, as well as superior speed stability! If so, there goes my speculati... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Jean, what about my comment that vibration is the other killer of turntable sound quality, aside from variations in the speed of rotation? I used to be able to FEEL the motor vibration in my old Rek-O-Kut (and I confess I never did a thing to tune... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II How can the Lenco sound so good? I want to be able to explain this to sophisticated audio friends as I demonstrate my new Lenco That Jean Built. Some people will more readily believe their ears if there's a clear, plausible explanation for what th... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II I shouldn't let the year 2006 end without adding to the Great Tradition of Accumulating Evidence of how idler wheel drives crush belt drives. I'm the proud owner of one of Jean's latest creations, a beautiful piano black Direct Coupled Glass Reinf... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II As a proud owner of what I understand was Jean's first Mighty Glass-Reinforced Direct Coupled Giant Lenco, it's past time that I checked in here to express my enthusiasm for this amazing turntable and to thank Jean, and all of you who are involved... | |
| Graham Slee GSP Era Gold Mk. V - anyone have it??? I bought both a GSP Era Gold MkV and an Ear 834P and lived with both for a couple of months. Each had its strong points, and I could see how some people might prefer the Ear. But I preferred the GSP's speed and slam. I saw in Audio Asylum discussi... | |
| Review: deHavilland Electric Amp Mercury 2 Tube preamp A quick update. My only dissatisfaction with the Mercury 2 was with the low and mi-bass. It's all there, but slightly recessed. An audio friend suggested putting in Teflon output capacitors. That appealed to me, since I've heard the huge differenc... | |
| Review: deHavilland Electric Amp Mercury 2 Tube preamp The dealer I've worked with the most over the years just got in Conrad Johnson's new CT-6 preamplifier which is in about the same price class as the deHavilland Mercury 2 (the CJ costs $4,500). He encouraged me to take it home over a Sunday and re... |