All about electronic valves and hi-fi
After upgrading my 26 preamp, turntable and adjusted the system to a great sounding state. Looking forward to play many records now…
This is a great new arm board made by Carl to fit my Lenco plinth. I’m planning to add a second plater so needed to raise the tonearm and therefore a new board was required. Carl can make this arm board to fit any requirements. Just get in touch with Carl if you need a special arm board for your plinth.
Great thing about bank holiday weekends is that you have more time to work on your projects! At least I had this time round.
After doing the initial calibration to the Lenco idler mechanism, I got the turntable finally assembled on the new plinth. It runs very quiet and smoothly despite having not dampened the idler wheeler as recommended in the Lenco Heaven forum. I need to look into it but so far the turntable runs really quiet.
The arm board is a bit lower than it needs to probably. I can adjust the VTA with the micrometer but I should look at raising it to allow the arm to be rotated to the right for best placement. The micrometer is preventing this to happen. Will refine later.
Ok, impressions so far after all this work then. I did many upgrades this time to my system so it is hard to quantify which part contributed the most to the sound improvement. Overall tone and clarity has improved. I suppose that the heavy plinth makes a big difference to the bass clarity. The overall tone improvement and detail is quite likely to be the Audiomods tone arm as well as using the Clearaudio Virtuoso Wood MM cartridge that Tony kindly give me to try.