This Lenco (still in the making) is a hybrid of the traditional Jean Nantais inspired mass constrained plinth and Peter Reinder s custom cut top plate from the Netherlands.
It includes my custom arm pod rail system that can accommodate tonearms from 16 inches down to an effective length of 195mm. A-pods are custom routered on a simple jig and can be knocked off to completion in a couple of hours.
The system was designed around a bearing sleeve capture by the second plinth layer. The plinth building was keyed to this capture (all drill work, scribing and cutting both above and below this point) so that side stress to the bearing was avoided.
I certainly pine for some of the components in your system - like your Ear phono stage and that wonderful Sansui Receiver. They must make beautiful music together. - Mario
Well thank you! I certainly admired your clean Lenco plinth that you put together ... what was it, 18 months ago? If I'm not mistaken, you sent it off with your son to college. Did it ever return? Did he ever return?
The tonearm that came with my Metzner was a Shure M16 -the studio version of the M-12. It has four ruby bearings showcased along the sides of the arm. One set is for the cartridge head which lowers to the record via a pushbutton.
Of course, the stylus for the M-1 cartridge had been trashed long ago, and replacements for this mono version and the M-21 stereo upgrade are virtually unobtainable these days. At some point, I may dig out all the "pick-up" material, weigh it and install a Shure M-3 or M-6 with some ballast for mass matching.
Hi Jean, Thank you for the compliment and for being the first poster to "My System". Alas, the learning curve on managing "My System" is a little steep for me. How can 4yanx upload multiple pictures while I find myself in the six picture shuffle?
Anyway, today I've got a Micro-Accoustic 100e mounted on the Ortofon after pulling a Grado Red for its muddy if humless performance.
The Rega still has that plain vanilla $50 AT aboard and I'm absolutely enthralled at how well it's doing - so much so that I continue to put off that conversion to a "real" cartridge (DL-103 + head amp).
