johnnantais
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| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi Richard, this is in the context of the post I was responding to from Kravi4ka - "had decided to make it the classic 23X19X6" - which is the Classic Giant as has been a running theme for well over a year now, why is why Kravi4ka refers to it as ... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Congratulations on scoring some Lencos, a Rega tonearm AND a Denon DL-103 Kravi4ka, a KILLER set-up for little money, killer enough to slay high-end belt-drives up into the Stratosphere! The general rule of thumb for achieving correct VTA is that ... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi all, up here I've been having continuing Adventures in Idler-ing, of course, AND human nature, which is to say, the blindness of prejudice. But first, back to the roots. Recently I re-fixed up an Elac Miracord 40 MKII, a lovely Art Deco beauty ... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi Bob, so far, so good, it at least looks as if there is a very good chance of a review, knock on a few tons of lumber, or perhaps a forest ;-), this is complicated and pricey! I have to say the Giant Direct Coupled Glass-Reinforced Lenco with RS... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi M16707, congratulations on your score! I've used both to great effect on Lencos, the ADC especially prefers the low-mass SME IIIs, on which it sounds incredibly musical, which would also be a good match for the Ortofon. The Ortofon would also s... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Thanks for the encouragement Bob, your enthusiasm is always much appreciated!!Over here I enjoyed another bout of Crush the Belt-Drive, this time my own turntable in my own system! I've decided it was finally time to sell my Maplenoll, and so I ca... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi Sixfigure, dammit that's the second meet-up I'll miss by a month or so, just got an e-mail this morning from an old friend who will be on one of my favourite Greek islands....exactly a month before I get there. I'll only be landing in Athens at... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi Helen, congratulations on discovering the Glories of the Lenco/Rega, and of course of a great MM, by all accounts. The MM vs MC debate is not over yet :-)!! Good and cheaper substitutes for the Quads are speakers with various alternative tweete... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II I'm back to discuss the RS Labs RS-A1/Denon DL-103"E" combo: it is superb, and could easily be that mythical thing, the Final Analogue Set-Up! I've just discovered the key to this combo - so it performs as well in the bass as it does everywhere el... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi Ronnie, reminds me of my first Lenco of all, sitting on stilts with just the Rega bolted in the tonearm-hole. Minus the big white brick of course ;-).Up here I've just finished another Giant Lenco, the Burgundy Bomb, and listening to it with th... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi Glenn, there are indeed two little teflon washers, one on either side of the wheel. These silence the scrapings of the wheel, and should be greased on both sides for best performance. Good luck finding one, can't remember if this was addressed ... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi Mario, you don't know the half of it: I also have a Rek-o-Kut Rondine Jr., and it too has a metal motor spindle and smaller wheel!! The Idler Gods certainly smile upon me, beginning in that fleamarket in Helsinki :-). Other than "Rondine" writt... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi Harry, I too once had a chance to get my hands on a McCurdy Idler, very nicely-built (under contract I believe to another company), but passed on it as it was going for too high a price, and I was still sitting on my nice Rek-o-Kut Rondine I ha... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Ah the Old MM vs MC debate! Reminds me of the early/middling days of Da Thread, and the Great Cartridge and Tonearm Frenzy: signs of health to see it re-appearing here! Myself, overall I'm an MM man, but, certain tonearms do sound excellent with M... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi Richard, thanks for your support, as always, and your usual caveats - a HEALTHY form of HONEST debate - only underline your integrity, and the integrity of this thread, as other healthy and fascinating debates have done in the past. Thanks to a... |