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| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Getting back to normal, I have some big upcoming news to share: the owner of a SME 30 has agreed to a Spin-Off against my Bauhaus Lenco (arranged by a friend who is currently borrowing it)!! Not threatened, he is only interested in sound quality a... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Thanks for the positive vibes, those who are positive, and thanks again to Mario for, first of all bringing back Da Thread (as it was known back in the days when it was the longest in audio history), and secondly for trying to keep Da Spirit alive... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Well, joining in on this Slate-o-Fest, I'm arranging to have a slab cut so I can test it (thanks Harvey), and we'll see if there is "no contest". Already, the simple baltic birch-ply/MDF recipe has beaten the fabled Shindo plinth (at least in term... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II To join in on the discussion of alternate drive systems, I want to remind everyone that I have never written that one cannot obtain good results from a belt-drive, just that they are inherently inferior to the other two drive systems (once the bug... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi Harvey, I'll give it a go and report on it, looks like the snowstorms are coming to an end and Spring is about to make an appearance!!Mosin, we'll keep an eye out for further idler developments. One fellow (hi Stephen) e-mailed me a suggestion:... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi Lew, no I haven't heard a Shindo platter on a Giant Garrard, but I have access to a good machinist who should be able to replicate the Garrard platter with some modifications (heavier metal, larger diameter, etc.) and perform the experiment mys... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi Hxt1, thanks for the tip, there's nothing like trying something to see what it does, like the ceramic ball. Btw, how do you pronounce Hxt1 ;-)?There are reasons I've steered clear of stone in the plinth, i.e. the "Hardness Factor", which means ... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II And now for a tale of synergies and Deccas. Waaayyy back, in the days of the original thread, I had accidentally found that the JMW tonearm was a perfect match for the notorious Decca cartridges. For the first time in my experience, the Decca beha... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Thanks for that Michael, as always your posts are a hoot!! And thanks for the report of the footer experiments Bob, I keep hearing about the use of Stillpoints, I'll have to get around to trying these.Well, yesterday I staged a BIG round of tonear... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Oops, thanks Mike for the research, I leave it to you to source the various elements and get back to us with the results ;-)!! I've taken the first steps in having new teflon thrust-plates made too. Now to treat my "Ultra Lenco" and see which incr... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi Mike and all: I just substituted the original metal ball for the ceramic ball and heard a HUGE increase in bass power, midbass, and actual transparency, if perhaps a loss of some imaging focus, which may be addressed by other means (loading of ... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi Lew and everyone else, sorry about the delay, out here in the country I don't always have access to Da 'Net, and the latest round of snowstorms has slowed everything down some more!!Lew, the bearings did indeed come from Boca Bearing, but I mus... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Beautiful Lencos Michael!!At this end I've been experimenting with ceramic ball bearings for the Lencos. As some of you may recall, when I reported on the Garrard vs Lenco, I had reported that only with a completely obssessive and neurotic main be... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Thanks for that Fordmod, and good luck in finishing your Rek-o-Kut project!!And now for a Tale of Idler Rumble. A while back I delivered both a Giant Direct Coupled Garrard 401 and a Giant Direct Coupled Glass-Reinforced Lenco (GDCGRL...say that t... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi Mario, haven't yet tripped over any Metzners, but am definitely on the lookout for one, if only for their bizarreness. I still have to get off my ass and get started on the Rek-o-kut Rondine I have, which, as I wrote a while back, sounded utter... |