Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/05/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dan is looking for a simple thing with onboard RIAA unit. At the price of the 2 units being considered the other suggestions may be price-innappropriate! I used to engineer turntables decades ago at Garrard, and have a wide experience of them. I have 4 different turntables here, (Goldmund Reference, EMT 938, Roksan Xerxes and B&O 8002) though I don't play LPs often. I checked out the Lenco site for the models you mention. The dearer one certainly looks nicer, but the specs show little of whether one will sound nicer than the other, though it is likely the wooden one will add less sound of its own to the proceedings. Of those two I would choose the dearer, personally. There has been a resurgence of interest in playing LPs over the last few years so there is a bigger choice of turntables now than for a long while, though the bulk of new offerings are in the eye-candy status-boosting price bracket rather than good bits of audio engineering IMHO... If you want a fit and forget these may well be fine. If you have bigger ambitions a Leica-like world of expensive fiddling around may open up to impoverish you! B&O turntables were all innovative designs, IMHO, their best product range price v performance. Most are belt drive but there were at least one (I have one) with a direct drive type linear motor. The cartridges are unobtainable new, though there is a German dealer rebuilding them and Soundsmith in the USA reverse engineered them and their versions are in current (expensive) production. There is no reason why a record player would scratch a record unless it was broken in some way. FD >> >> >> >> Message du : 11/05/2013 07:36 >> De : "Dan Khong " <dankhong at gmail.com> >> A : lug at leica-users.org >> Copie ? : >> Sujet : [Leica] OT: Vinyl Record Turntables >> >> >> Hi LUGgers >> >> I recently developed an interest in playing old record style music with a >> new fashion turntable (one that has a little pre-amp built in so that I >> can >> connect the RCA cables on my mini-compo set). >> >> Of the many models available in Singapore, and on what I am happy to spend >> on a turntable, I have narrowed down to two sets both made by Lenco (a >> defunct Swiss company now bought over by a Dutch company and manufactured >> in a big country far from the Netherlands). >> >> There are two models in mind, The L82 is basic but costs a mere US$178 and >> the nicer one with wood finish is the L90 priced at $368. Can one really >> discern the difference in the quality of the music out-putted by these two >> devices? >> >> I will appreciate the views of our esteemed Leica *aficionados * >> who are knowledgeable in such low end sound equipment. Many thanks. >> >> Dan K.