johnnantais
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| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II I'm baA-Aack! So, to get back to Ivor Tiefenbrun and the Linn, Bob (please excuse my earlier vehemence), let's resort to logic and evidence. What he brought to the party in particular was his philosophy of source first, with which I completely agr... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II "As I have repeatedly written since the beginning, in adopting the belt-drive they threw the baby (music: PRaT, SLAM, bass, gestalt) out with the bathwater (noise), and ignored the evidence of their senses, i.e. that with the [purely theoretical] ... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Anyone remember "Perfect Sound Forever"? Even the most rabid Digitophiles would now admit that was a load of horse-sh*t, being at the end of decades of improvements since then. And yet the mainstream press trumpeted it across all lands as if it we... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II I don't argue at all, and never did, that belt-drive was developed to reduce noise and pitched that way, Bob, it is implicit in what I wrote already: "The CLD plinths, which are dead neutral and I believe superior when made up of humble birch-ply/... | |
| Antique Sound Labs Wave AV 25 Monoblocks I had a pair and sold them on as they didn't match my speakers at the time. A friend bought them, and in his very large room they absolutely scream with 90 db speakers, filling the room with pounding bass rhythms. Incredible detail, transparency a... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II That's exactly it Bob. The reaction that it CANNOT BE simply superior speed stability that accounts for the Lenco's (and Garrard's, and idlers in general) incredible sound is a very common one, and I hear it all the time both via e-mail and from t... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Time now for the Mighty to Tremble, in what is shaping up to be a very exciting and significant New Year!!! Having applied all the lessons learned in maximizing the potential of Lencos, and using "Mr. Red" as my Reference and Standard, I sent out ... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II I'd like to wish everyone a Happy New Year and Happy New Musical Discoveries!!! And thanks both for the informative and useful reviews and the kind words! I've got lots of new stuff to report and discuss, but no time today, time for some feasting!... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi Steve, this thread IS fun isn't it? Nothing like stirring up a bit of fun and experimentation!! If the postings on eBay are genuine, EMT 948s are selling by the dozen at the moment, at 700 pounds British a pop. I confess, given their incredible... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi all, hope you had a Merry and very fine Christmas and will have a very Happy New Year!! Hope you sorted your Lenco Helen, good to hear from you again!! Glad to see you're progressing and having some fun by the sound of it Peter, from your descr... | |
| Where to spend some money? Well, if we're considering DIY/restorations, try something at least as good as a Garrard or Thorens, likely better than any belt-drive regardless of price, and cheaper than either Thorens or Garrard: go Lenco, of course! Easier to fix up and impro... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Great news Peter, it's Christmas!! I look forward to handling these beauties myself, using one as a platform for my "Lenco-Noll," contact me for shipping, moneys owed and so forth.And up here it is going to be an Audio Christmas for me, as I'm all... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi Wolf, lead or sand in the stand is fine I think, the idea being, I believe anyway (and I speak from experience), the further away from the cartridge the better (if you REALLY want to kill the sound, try putting Sorbothane between the cartridge ... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II No, I still use neoprene to bridge that gap (when necessary), but it is not an active killer of vibrations (including musical vibrations) like Dynamat or Sorbothane, or sand and lead shot (lead sheet is better, as it is relatively solid and inert ... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Sorry Stefanl, other than what I've written I can't say anymore, as I haven't had a noise problem to deal with. That said, looking at the logic of the Ladder of Importance - i.e. that the source is most important as losses here cannot be made up f... |