Yggdrasill
Super Member
I have been looking for a nice turntable for a while. I have a bunch of vinyl I haven't listened to in decades and am finally getting a listening room set up.
When I set up systems for my teens last year they both wanted turntables; got my son an entry Pioneer and my daughter an entry leveI Rega. Now I've got the vinyl bug too.
The world of turntables is a bit overwhelming, especially as different manufacturers take completely different routes - heavy plinth/light plinth, heavy tonearm/light tonearm, different drive mechanics, a dizzying array of cartridges and phono preamps. I've read a bunch but not listened to much. Then I came across a Lenco L75 rebuilt by the owner as a PTP6 (more about that here: http://www.ptpaudio.com/ptp-audio.html.). I had never heard about Lenco and I found the idler drive intriguing. I want something reliable that I don't need to fuss with, unless I were doing a restoration myself from scratch; but I really don't have time for that these days. Does this description below intrigue any of you? Any experience with the reliability of Lencos?
From the description: "The motor was completely gone over with new bronze bushings and proper grease. The bearing is a custom after market bearing housing (made in Europe). It's using an original idler wheel that I was able to acquire as a NOS. I also have an Idler wheel made by Audio Silente in Italy.
It's in a custom plinth that I made out of multiple layers of Baltic Birch plywood with a Maple veneered top, and 1/2" solid Purpleheart sides and tonearm board. There is a IEC connector allowing the use of a power cord of your choice. Speeds (33 and 45 only) are controlled with a Phoenix Engineering Eagle PSU amplifier and controller (25 watt model), with a Roadrunner Digital Tachometer. These are longer made but are highly sought after.
Included is a Jelco SA-750L tonearm (12") with Denon DL103 mounted in a Panzerholz wood body. The cartridge has less than 50 hours on it."
When I set up systems for my teens last year they both wanted turntables; got my son an entry Pioneer and my daughter an entry leveI Rega. Now I've got the vinyl bug too.
The world of turntables is a bit overwhelming, especially as different manufacturers take completely different routes - heavy plinth/light plinth, heavy tonearm/light tonearm, different drive mechanics, a dizzying array of cartridges and phono preamps. I've read a bunch but not listened to much. Then I came across a Lenco L75 rebuilt by the owner as a PTP6 (more about that here: http://www.ptpaudio.com/ptp-audio.html.). I had never heard about Lenco and I found the idler drive intriguing. I want something reliable that I don't need to fuss with, unless I were doing a restoration myself from scratch; but I really don't have time for that these days. Does this description below intrigue any of you? Any experience with the reliability of Lencos?
From the description: "The motor was completely gone over with new bronze bushings and proper grease. The bearing is a custom after market bearing housing (made in Europe). It's using an original idler wheel that I was able to acquire as a NOS. I also have an Idler wheel made by Audio Silente in Italy.
It's in a custom plinth that I made out of multiple layers of Baltic Birch plywood with a Maple veneered top, and 1/2" solid Purpleheart sides and tonearm board. There is a IEC connector allowing the use of a power cord of your choice. Speeds (33 and 45 only) are controlled with a Phoenix Engineering Eagle PSU amplifier and controller (25 watt model), with a Roadrunner Digital Tachometer. These are longer made but are highly sought after.
Included is a Jelco SA-750L tonearm (12") with Denon DL103 mounted in a Panzerholz wood body. The cartridge has less than 50 hours on it."
I’ve got a wood EMT Bannana arm from Eastern Europe that’s a decent 12” arm for just a couple hundred bucks, but it wouldn’t add much if any value to the above turntable….
