radicalsteve
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| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Lewm, the best result so far has been with an SME V and a Kondo-IOj. I always thought the SME was a stellar performer but somehow lacking the 'soul' that allows you to feel the pace and rhythm or "being there" with the music. On the Lenco, the SME... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Just a brief post to say that the mighty Lenco L75 rebuild recently completed smokes my Micr-Seiki RX-5000 and my heavy plinthed Technics SP 10 Mk2. Second best upgrade to my system after rooom treatment.I will try and post pics and a more lengthy... | |
| New Teres Direct Drive Motor Available as Option This new developmeent is going to be interesting. I recently did one of those Lenco heavy plinth rebuilds and I was blown away by the immediacy and dynamics it brought out in every arm/cart combination I tried. My long suffering wife pointed out t... | |
| Clamp or weight for Technics Direct Drive? DavidI use a heavy Audiolife sub-platter on my SP-10 Mk2 with a heavy brass record clamp. I have also used an AT-666 sub platter as well but the 5Kg Audioplatter fits and gives the SP-10 better grip and micro-dynamics to the point where I can say ... | |
| Dyscoveries on Dyna, Denon, Supex, Technics,FR,Ik Raul, it is still early days but I found that with damping I got better definition in terms of space and timing so there is somehow more focus and direct translation, perhaps a bit more slam as well. Now I changed the damping fluid to a low viscos... | |
| Dyscoveries on Dyna, Denon, Supex, Technics,FR,Ik Correction to previous postMy enthusiasm for elevating the Technics 205CMK3 performance obscured the fact that of course it has an integrated headshell and so I will not be able to try it on the SME V or in the Yamamoto headshell that the Koetsu i... | |
| Dyscoveries on Dyna, Denon, Supex, Technics,FR,Ik Further update on the Technics 205CMK3After further burn in, around 20 hours by now, the cart is starting to sing, so much so, that it now eclipses the Koetsu RS in performance. The cart benefits from some light damping to solidify the bootom end,... | |
| Dyscoveries on Dyna, Denon, Supex, Technics,FR,Ik Based on Raul's observations I was able this week to hunt down the last of a batch of 5 NOS Technics 205CMK3 from of all places Totem loudspeakers (none left so don't ask). Still unopened in the box I did not realise that the cart and headshell ar... | |
| Best Koetsu for SME V Thanks Jonathan, my mistake re the DD. I hope to get my Lenco rebuild done in a couple of weeks, so the comparison between this idler drive and the SP10 DD in heavy plinths will be interesting. For what its worth, on both of my rebuilds have gone ... | |
| Best Koetsu for SME V I tend to agree with Raul here as I have found that matching the arm with Koetsu's is the key to performance. For many years I owned a Black which I had rebuilt by the now deceased Garrott Bros and it was a great cart in the right arm and in the w... | |
| Top ten tube amps I have to put in a word here for the Sonic Frontiers Power 3 or Power 2 amps. I recently acquired a pair of Power 3's and had Chris Johnson, the original co-owner of SFI, now running Parts Connexion to upgrade them to SE+. I can't believe it gets ... |