20-06-2011, 07:40 PM
Hi Rob,
Pivot to spindle for my mission is listed as 210mm so the same as the Lenco stock arm.
The SME 3009 is a very well regarded tonearm and should work brilliantly if you can come up with a correct mounting point for it. It may be worth going over to the Lenco Heaven web forum, a very friendly bunch who have done just about every modification possible to the standard deck. May be worth building a nice plinth for it as well, some of the chaps there say they've sold their VPIs etc after mounting the Lenco deck in a slate or heavy timber plinth!
They are seriously good decks and now coming up in price however. When I got mine the average price was about £50 for a good one, now they sometimes sell for over £100. Still much less than a Garrard 301 or 401.
I haven't started experimenting with mats yet. I haven't got a great 'speaker layout in my bedroom sadly so little things like mats aren't my main worry at the moment but once I've got a place of my own with a dedicated Hi-Fi room I hope to start experimenting with the smaller stuff. For what it's worth I've heard a lot of good things about cork mats but also many people saying the original Lenco one is good. Sadly I haven't had much time for vinyl recently, the last time I was able to listen to a full LP was December! I need to do some work on my Luxman amp which has got a slight hiss but once that's sorted I hope to get back into the swing of things. I will also hopefully post up some pictures of my homebrew vacuum record cleaning machine.
Josh.
Pivot to spindle for my mission is listed as 210mm so the same as the Lenco stock arm.
The SME 3009 is a very well regarded tonearm and should work brilliantly if you can come up with a correct mounting point for it. It may be worth going over to the Lenco Heaven web forum, a very friendly bunch who have done just about every modification possible to the standard deck. May be worth building a nice plinth for it as well, some of the chaps there say they've sold their VPIs etc after mounting the Lenco deck in a slate or heavy timber plinth!
They are seriously good decks and now coming up in price however. When I got mine the average price was about £50 for a good one, now they sometimes sell for over £100. Still much less than a Garrard 301 or 401.
I haven't started experimenting with mats yet. I haven't got a great 'speaker layout in my bedroom sadly so little things like mats aren't my main worry at the moment but once I've got a place of my own with a dedicated Hi-Fi room I hope to start experimenting with the smaller stuff. For what it's worth I've heard a lot of good things about cork mats but also many people saying the original Lenco one is good. Sadly I haven't had much time for vinyl recently, the last time I was able to listen to a full LP was December! I need to do some work on my Luxman amp which has got a slight hiss but once that's sorted I hope to get back into the swing of things. I will also hopefully post up some pictures of my homebrew vacuum record cleaning machine.
Josh.
