johnnantais
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| Top turntables? What, no Lenco, no Garrard :-)?!? Time will tell (is already telling), the sands of time are running....You want PRESENCE, excitement, the sort of PALPABILITY which hits you in the stomach and leaves you gasping for breath, try a properly set-up i... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi Chris, from your description it sounds almost impossible the noise is coming from your bearing. Remove the idler wheel and simply spin the platter to see if there is any noise, make sure it is not coming from the idler-wheel. If it is indeed co... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi Ghougary, I don't think plaster is overdamping, it being fairly neutral and non-absorptive. Give it a go! As to the bias weight, biasing is not an exact science, as the force actually changes as the needle travels across the LP, there is no abs... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi Leisual: if the Lenco is working fine, then buy some rust solvent and clean the Lenco up and go through with it. The cleaning up part will be more work, bt in the end it will be stellar. Apparently tea is an excellent rust solvent: TEA.Hi Mike,... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi Ronnie, no, there is no little screw interfering with the flush-mounting of my RS-A1, it is affixed flush using two-way tape with no problem on my arm-board. Perhaps they took care of that in their later models. Oh well on the AI 800 count, nev... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hey Ronnie, small world!! I know I am loving the sound of this amp more and more, due as well to some 'table/tonearm/cartridge rolling I was doing yesterday. I'd love it if you contacted him and got me some more info/opinions on this amp!! But, to... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi Mike, yes indeedy the AI 800 MKIII has an easy musicality, liveliness and fluidity which complements the Klipsch very well, sounding very smooth, AND produces some quite serious bass! It has a Beauty which reminds me of the Ortofon M15E Super, ... | |
| Review: David Berning Co MicroZOTL Tube amp Hi Tom, now I have some horn speakers, Klipsch Heresy's MKI, I did a little Googling and came across your excellent review, small world!! I am going to have to give this one a try, based on your experiences, thanks for the review and to the others... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II And Peter, good to "see" you again, happy to see you're still enjoying the Mighty Lencos :-)!!For an update on my system these days, I last reported I had acquired a pair of Klipsch Heresy's which totally blew me away and conquered me, and in a ne... | |
| Jolida JD-9A or Pro-ject Tube Box SE phono preamp? The Project Tube Box SE is a very good and versatile phono stage, performs way above its price-point or, indeed, design, and isn't necessarily noisy: there is a fellow in town here who has the two required tubes carefully matched, which reduces no... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi KB, that's the spirit and the right attitude! However, noise from a Lenco motor is NOT normal (mine are characterized by DEAD silence, even when compared to belt-drives said to be superb in this regard) it would help if we knew which model Lenc... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II A local fellow who has asked me to build him a Giant Direct Coupled Lenco has just left after an afternoon of listening, and in leaving (and in the context of an extremely high-end system) admitted to me that the day he first heard one of these re... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi Paul: one of the Decca's great strengths (and there are many) is bass power, which even its opponents concede. If you're not getting that now, then I hope anyway more mass will help. One thing for certain, the extra mass increases focus, SLAM/d... | |
| Can you imagine a world without vinyl? A more accurate advertising scenario is this: Man (of any physical type) holds a deed to swampland in Florida. Face it digitophiles, you've been sold a Bill of Goods, a Dud, a Failure.While digitization is a great idea for storing information, mus... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hey Rjdcan, great to hear from you again! Give me enough years, and I will eventually get around to everything ;-)! Just so no one gets the wrong idea (so many are looking for reasons NOT to try an idler-wheel drive), in any system and with any sp... |