Reason for buying old/classic turntables

I would not think of vintage setups in the stock form to be anything but average at best........like I said earlier - they need work, love and patience to sound their best.
Example - Lenco 75
-needed a whole bunch of tweaks, speed calibration, break removal as well as any unnecessary parts which weren't needed and introduced/transmit/resonate noise and vibration.
-plinth is the essence to successful Lenco setup
-stock tonearm is crap
-top metal plate needs some dampening
etc, etc, etc, etc.........

Sure with some work and experimentation it can sound really , really good but at what cost........(time, frustration, experimentation ). It's definitely not a project for someone who just wants to listen Vinyl without getting down and dirty.

For the record I own 2 vintage tables, which doesn't change the fact that todays's best i.e. Walker Proscenium, TW Acustic Raven, Basis Work of Art, Rockport, etc. are simply better than their older counterparts. Better materials, better engineering, tighter tolerances et.al. Old can be very good but hardly SOTA. Calipers are no match for computers and CNC equipment. That's wishful thinking.

Also, whether you agree with my views, they are devoid of financial interest and/or bias.

Any fool would know that.

Even Jack.

Who doesn't have a clue btw.

For me, as someone who wants to spend time listening to music rather than mucking with equipment, when the time comes to replace my current Linn table (hopefully not for another 20 years), I would look at new tables first to see what I might be missing.

I would go with another Linn in a heartbeat going in, but I believe it would cost me 3-4 times or more to replace my 80's vintage Linn Axis with a new Linn table today. Would a new table be that much better?

Audiofeil,

"Any fool would know that.
Even J____.
Who doesn't have a clue btw/"

We should be kind and respectful to one another. Why do you always have to put some type of degrading remark towards someone in your comments?

This is supposed to be a kind albeit witty discussion. Insults are not needed, maturity would be appreciated.

Take a pill or something before writing your next one.

Ketchup, I would say there's nothing very great about the build quality of a Lenco L75. The drive system is completely novel and full of potential problems, but it works very very well, if you perform a few mods here and there and get rid of the stock tonearm. As you say, "they simply got lucky".