hello all
no maybe not the greatest turntable in the world, but what is the best TT in the world? dont get me wrong i dont want to start that endless discussion here! some are crap some are great players. In this case the goal has been achieved. My Friend has his parent's TT back in good working order and given the standards of the day it was produced, i can state that now it is better than new. thats a great thing on itself. yes Lenco's are great TT's. even if you overhaul the machines nowadays, give them a good cartridge and needle do some minor upgrading they compete with higher end TT's of today.
lenco of today is from china and those TT's are crap... just the feel of them makes you uncomfortable. My lenco L75 has a delicate tone arm but the plastic bombs of today's lenco's... i wouldn't dare touching those arms in the showroom...
If you want to do a better job, you give them a new plinth, maybe a new arm and go on... and then you can achieve a high end TT. But can our ears distinguish all this bladibla? To some extent it can in my opinion. As a semi pro musician i sit in front of a grand piano every day... that means a great deal of decibels to my 40!!! years old ears per day. Yes i can hear the difference amongst one and the other cartridge and yes i can hear many grades of tone warmth and so on... but no i dont complain when the classical concert sounds different from my record when i am in the concert hall.
let's listen to music and play it on good equipment but let's not exagerate....
hear hear!
"Machines that produce music much better than ears can hear".
