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Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II

“For those who want the moon but can't afford it or those who can afford it but like to have fun and work with their hands, I'm willing to give out a recipe for a true high-end 'table which is easy to do, and fun to make as sky's the limit on design/creativity! The cost of materials, including 'table, is roughly $200 (depending, more or less), and add to that a Rega tonearm. The results are astonishing. I'll even tell/show you how to make chipboard look like marble and fool and impress all your friends. If there's interest I'll get on with this project, if not, I'll just continue making them in my basement. The next one I make will have a Corian top and have a zebra stripe pattern! Fun! Any takers?”

The Lead in “Da Thread” as posted by Johnnantais - 2-01-04

Let the saga continue. Sail on, oh ships of Lenco!
mario_b
dopogue
1,767 posts
 
Mario, wouldn't using the RS-A1 limit you to those carts that can be mounted from underneath (i.e., not the one with already-threaded mounting holes)? I guess you could always ream out the holes on the RS-A1, but ...

Dave
mgreene
107 posts
 
HI Lewm, I missed the last sentance of your post. Sorry to take off on your point.

After re-reading Ricks post, I see that he didnt really leave in a huff, he just declined to continue and in a fairly gentlemanly way too. Maybe he mistook Jean's unflagging enthusiam for the Lenco as using his turntable as a whipping boy.

All in all, it is great fun and almost laughable that a Lenco sitting on a big hunk of wood can even be spoken of in the same breath as a highly engineered $30K audio product.

Mike
mario_b OP
147 posts
 
Hi Dave,
"To ream, or not to ream" the RS-A1 headshell, is the quadry facing Ian's over at LL, even as you write.
- Mario
hxt1
141 posts
 
Anyone here have experience running cinemag sut's with a denon 103r?
My 103 sounds great but I am getting stridency with the 103r.
any ideas? I only post here because it is all connected to my rega rb250 on my beloved LENCO!!!
dopogue
1,767 posts
 
Mario, that RS-A1 thread on LL is a hoot. Eight pages already, good grief. They keep trying to make sense of the arm and some seem to think the pivoting head follows the grooves sorta like an offset-head arm. Nope. I think you just have to recognize that nothing about the arm makes sense and yet it sounds fantastic, and until you can ignore the disconnect, you're in trouble:-)

Dave
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