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| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi Fishwinker,Been brooding about what could be causing your motor vibration ... and I'm still brooding ...In the meantime, take a look at 4yanx's post from a while back and see if it applies.04-27-05: 4yanx"As a further aside, we've found that th... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi Justubes,That would be L-75, L-78, L(GL)-88, L-(GL)-99.There are other earlier models with heavy platters, but plastic idler wheels which are prone to warping like the L-61, L-68 and L-70 which shouldn't be dismissed as out of hand. I've got an... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi Justubes,According to LencoLand this turntable is belt-driven with a lightweight, stamped platter and a good deal of automation - perhaps, not a good candidate for "the conversion".That said, if this turntable is already in your possession, it ... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Mosin, you may be speaking to a stage that, as I read it, is quickly clearing. So without further adieu …Everybody on stage for the line number, please! Take your bows or take your best shots. Willbewill, Bornin, Freek? It seems apparent that the ... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Jean,Where are my manners? Thank you for the very kind words, and as I wrote you in an e-mail, it’s what any Lenco renegade would do – but, perhaps a bit too renegade – in that I’m not all too comfortable fielding the header responsibilities with ... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi Fishwinker,It seems you are the point where you’ll need to adjust the block that surrounds the armature. 1- Remove the motor from the Lenco and place it on a resonant surface (I find Styrofoam shipping block to be excellent). 2- Hot-wire your m... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Up early today for the Labor Day weekend estate/garage sales. In the college town where I live, this is also move out/move in week where the total cast-offs in the garbage lanes would keep some third world countries afloat.Those in the U.S. still ... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Just to fill everybody in … it is our hope that this “Despot II” is temporary, as we understand that the staff at AudioGon is hard at work trying to restore the original monster thread that was accidentally deleted two days ago. So this is a stop-... | |
| Time to Uncork that '55 Metzner? Hi Mark,Thanks for your suggestions about the platter mats. I'll certainly look into them as I'm short a couple on all my rebuild projects.Out of curiosity, when you wrote that you would not recommend the alteration to the Metzner, was this becaus... | |
| Time to Uncork that '55 Metzner? Hi PiedPiper,The bottom of the platter is already painted white to highlight the strobe-o-scope markings. Since this is a 50s artifact, Unsound, it's probably lead paint. I'll try to resist chewing on it.Getting back to the cork ... since it's not... | |
| Music out there with good bass Some of Celia Cruz' (Queen of Salsa) last recordings are mixed with some very rich bass. Santana/Puente covers. | |
| Is a good Cermic Cartridge an Oxymoron? Hey Ghostrider,Thanks for the correction on those MA carts and sorry to hear about the trashing of your stylus.I just purchased a low end MA from the classifieds here and mounted it to test with the Metzner - No Hum whatsoever! Very good frequency... | |
| Difficult Sopranos With no intention of causing too much of a stir, this may also be hard clipping, which is how digital recordings handle distortion overloads as opposed to soft clipping which is a little more natural and ear-friendly which is found in anolog playb... | |
| Job of Producer versus Recording Engineer Gotta think that role defining along these lines will be a slippery frog when variations in genres, labels, projects and personalities are factored in. Two examples come to mind: Charles Gerhardt, a Julliard trained pianist turned recording engine... | |
| Reel to Reel Tape Decks T-Bone,Another forum site with a good deal of Reel to Reel threads is over at AudioKarma.org. One knowledgeable fellow is a guy named Goldear - track down his threads - and they'll lead to others.I've been playing RtRs for 40 years, and many 2-tra... |