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| What would a mat do for my Garrard 301 turntable The Garrard 301 and 401 and the Lencos need a heavy mat to damp out ringing in the platter. The stock Garrard mats do this well. I've had good results with using a Spotmat on top of the stock Garrard mat. But the Garrard mat...or some other heavy ... | |
| Calling all Garrard 301's owners/ sophisticated Yes, the spark suppressors go bad. All it is: a capacitor across the switch contacts. A replacement capacitor would be easy to source, but it wouldn't LOOK like the original Garrard part. A typical electronics hobbyist probably has something suita... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II "New Lenco LLC" to produce new Lenco idler turntables============================================News ReleaseApril 1, 2009In a world seemingly gone to digital disc and downloads, the latest news in the revival of the LP phonograph record is the in... | |
| Decca London Gold cartridge nightmare Tbg:"GP49, wow, you take me back many years. Do you still have a working Keith Monks arm? And a working Rabco!"=========================NO on one, YES on the other.I don't have a functioning Keith Monks; couldn't find one when I was interested, an... | |
| Decca London Gold cartridge nightmare Getting into this thread late, but both the poor sound and the breakage of the armature suggest that there may have been prior damage to Tubemoose's Decca.Some people mess with Deccas and crack the tiny, thin steel armature where it does a 90-degr... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Since there's no activity over here, I may as well direct you to an interesting project involving a stripped-down Lenco idler drive and platter, being coupled via an idler wheel to a second, passive platter on which records are played.The only phy... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Just so everyone knows, the move of Lenco Heaven off ProBoards to a new, dedicated site is complete.New URL:http://www.lencoheaven.net/ | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Artd wrote:"It seems the Lenco Lovers site was not taken down by the Administration, but was the victim of a very professional hit job. Apparently all data has been deleted and the chances of any being recovered is slight..."To a forum user (not a... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Johnnantais wrote:" So, for those who own Garrards, it might be something to try to get a step-up transformer - assuming you have the "original" European wheels - and try this out to see if it makes an improvement."If one is in the USA or Canada o... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II "...It seems that there is something then to rubber damping and decoupling designs. Almost has one wondering if there are some quick and dirty opportunities to incorporate this methodology on to other arms we like..."Not hard to do, actually! A ho... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Postings are indeed reviewed, which became apparent when the original Home Despot thread met an untimely, and some still suspect, conspiratorial end. Postings to this, new forum that challenged the "official" version of the destruction of the orig... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II THANKS, Mario.Unfortunately the original PVC tire disintegrated and is no longer in existence. The best I can do is to measure a known good, metal idler for diameter and include a photograph showing the tire's profile. | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Grant, have you any experience with Ed Crockett's rebuilds of idler wheels? I have a plastic idler from a Bogen B-61; the PVC tire has long since perished and cracked, and fallen off. It's gone; I didn't keep it around once it went.Also, sooner or... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Curiously the ADC K8 was primarily INTENDED by its maker, by then a subsidiary of turntable manufacturer BSR, for use in idler-drive tables...as it was standard equipment in quite a number of BSR record changers, many of them inexpensive at that! ... | |
| Anyone familiar with: Pickering Pickering was indeed the "consumer twin" to Stanton but alas, after the death of Walter O. Stanton the company was sold and moved to Florida, with much of the production now done outside the USA. Stanton, far from "professional" in the audiophile/... |