March 15, 2025 8:41 pm
This is a special small Reference Lenco MKIII with the complete if smaller new chassis with Ultimate bearing, and the plinth is built with the usual special tonewoods of my entire Reference line but also has special high density materials in the construction which makes it much heavier than it…
March 15, 2025 8:05 pm
Heading back all the way to my most budget model, the TJN Standard Lenco, that being a Lenco mounted in a small TJN plinth with a tonearm in the original armhole, no separate armboard. The following are all improvements that did not exist in the earliest days of the Audiogon…
May 4, 2022 5:59 pm
Yes, even the light platter Lencos can be turned into serious high end machines capable of taking on five figure belt drives even in terms of detail and refinement, bass and dynamics a foregone conclusion. I’ve sold a few MightyMites with heavy CLD veneered plinth, redone, professionally painted and modified…
May 4, 2022 5:45 pm
I have in the original box a New Old Stock Lenco L75-16S, which is a later Lenco with traditional S-shaped gimbal-bearing tonearm with traditonal mounting collet and headshell, which means it can accept any standard headshell. This makes a great beginner tonearm for those on a budget. It even comes…
May 4, 2022 5:39 pm
This mint condition Garrard 401 with strobe platter and working strobe light in mounted to a plinth veneered in what I call “Chocolate Chip Maple”, a freak of nature in which vines grew through a maple tree to create the effect you see here. It has my own design thrust…
November 23, 2020 3:00 pm
This I built to insert some fun into this year’s Halloween, choosing as an exterior Orangewood for Halloween, set off by black Wenge side panels with dedcorative Orangewood dowels, and black metalwork including special solid aluminum Flying Saucer Feet of my own design. It is built for a single shorter…
February 21, 2020 10:39 pm
When I designed the Ultimate Lenco, I had to test it against a known reference, which was then the Reference Lenco MKIII. First, I had to test the sonics of my extremely rare air-dried tonewoods, one of which was at least 50 years old (and could go back to the…
February 21, 2020 10:12 pm
This design is quite popular, I keep getting requests if one is available. Well, this one is available, visually identical to the one which Arthur Salvatore first reviewed, and built very soon after for his associate, who was first to hear a Reference Lenco. It is built for one shorter…
November 29, 2016 4:50 pm
This is available and ready for rebuilding to either Classic levels (includes comprehensive restoration and improvement of the machine itself), or to Reference levels. I have already done one according to the Reference recipe and it responded very well with superb retrieval of fine detail. All my rebuilds are dead…
November 29, 2016 4:50 pm
This particular Sony 2250 in heavy Classic plinth was sold to a very high end gentleman where it outperformed his Oracle Delphi MKV in black and gold with SME V which he sold. It is finished in finished in jatoba veneer, which can be replaced with another more exotic veneer.…
