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In Reply to: RE: AR-XA Turntable Update posted by Awe-d-o-file on May 26, 2016 at 12:14:34
I agree. Hard to find a better turntable at anywhere near the price. The only one that would really beat it is the Thorens, and at a much higher price.
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Yep a Thorens would cost a lot more. Back in the day $25 could get a de sent AR and then if you hot rod it some a real nice piece for not too much $$
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... is actually a Lenco and just as popular today (among those who know what to do with it) as the AR.
My buddy I moved from Rockville to Kentucky this year had that Bogen/Lenco
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(http://www.avahifi.com/images/avahifi/root/audio_basics/ab_pdf/ab1984.pdf) This is the 1984 mod that Frank Van AlStine did to the ARXA in 1984. I did 2 of them and it's real easy. When you get to the tonearm I have a new way to put a new vert. bearing in the brass tonearm post which Frank does not discuss and also that great tutorial on the AR rebuild by John Weathers, first thing up on Google.
I just got my camera figured out, 2 days off and I'll have something valuable to add.
Awe-d-o-file, your top plate looks great.I just did mine without the plate removed and put Frog tape to the test. It worked great. Also got a dust cover in the works were it can be lowered while a record is playing. Look at the bright sun beaming thru the window and it's dust city. Why clean a record if it's just going to get dirty in the playback?
If the address is too long to type go to Google/Audio by VanAlStine/Audio Basics Newsletter 1984. Keep showing your progress, I'm lovin it......Mark Korda
$78 sounds like a bargain today, but back in the mid sixties that was a weeks take home pay for a lot of people. My first forty hour job in a rolling mill in 1968 brought me home about $90.
korda's link
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