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Good luck Jean with your preparations for the almighty challenge...having just read Srajan's article in 6 moons, he sounds pretty open to the possibility of the ultimate enlightenment experience.
Ive been doing a few comparisons of my own this evening, prompted by one of my sons asking why I bothered with vinyl, weren't CD's easier?....sat him down next to me...started the same U2 track on CD and vinyl simultaneously-Helter Skelter-turned the volume up and then played him 30 seconds or so of the CD version, then let the mighty Lenco rip into it. As a follow up, played both versions of the guitar intro to Van Diemen's Land. When he heard the Lenco version, he looked at me and a grin spread across his face.....the mighty Lenco bringing through the rich warm textures of the notes, on Cd the sound was tinny, flat and made me want to yawn, the Lenco kept me entranced and enthralled at the beauty of the music.. But then he whipped out his iPod, started playing the film 'A hard day's night' saying "but your Lenco can't do this, can it?". I had to agree with him, but...

Jean, great writing and all too true.
As I am putting more miles on my PTPL (Peter's Top Plate Lenco) it continues to amaze, it really is very good!
So far everything that wasn't already great has turned out to be an artefact of something else, not of the PTPL. I have finally ordered a DL103 that I will try as soon as it arrives.
Keep up the good work!
Peter

I had my first listen to a mighty Lenco on Saturday, playing my own records on a system that is otherwise foreign to me. I was floored by the HUGE soundstage, fabulous sense of depth and pace, and yes bass response in spades. Rumble? What rumble? As Jean knows, I am putting my money where my mouth is by ordering a table. So now that I am about to join this exclusive club, can I ask if any owners of Lencos out of Jean's shop are using low output moving coil cartridges on their tables? If so, what are the results compared to the same or similar cartridges used on high quality belt-drive tables? Thanks.

G'day Folks
I don't get this rumble business. Even when I played my totally unmodified L78 after it lay in the garage collecting dust for years and with no oil in the bearing the rumble was not that bad, far less objectionable than the earth loop hum I was getting.
A liberal drop of Mobil 1 full synthetic (the motorbike version) and the rumble was banished never to return.
I mostly listen at very low levels where any background noise is going to be emphasised but I get - nothing. Just a silken, quite gorgeous quiet.
For those interested the rather protracted saga of the Lenco MultiArm Plinth has had its final posting in the All Out Assault forum. Doesn't seem like that much work now that it's finished! Not that I'll be hurrying to do another one - there's some bloody big backloaded horns to build to bring out the most from the mighty Lenco.
Here we go again.

Lewn, I am using a LOMC, a Denon DL304 with an stated ouput of 0.18 mv on my L78. It feeds into an Denon SUT and I hear no rumble. My plinth is a layered one but not super heavy. I have not direct coupled but have damped the metal. I have greased the bottom and lightly oiled the sides of the bearing but have not touched the motor. Extraneous bits of metal and plastic have been removed from the workings and the springs have been replaced with elastics. One day I may get to the remaining tweaks. Or maybe not. I am really enjoying the music I get from my system now.
Harry