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Hi All,
I picked up a lenco l70 with original tonearm. I have heard that the original tonearm is ok...so i am keen to try it with a decent cartridge.
Can anyone recommend a suitable cartridge to try with it...I am leaning towards a MM as I have a ZU denon dl-103 in my other deck, and want a different type of sound.
thanks!
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The L70 was Lenco's first production stereo arm.
I've had great results with Denon DL-102 and GE VRII in my mono system and others have reported success with DL-103. I did NOT have success with a Decca London Maroon.
Any DJ cartridge should also work well and I have heard they can sound really very nice.
Only look at cartridges designed to track from 2.5g upwards in medium to high mass arms.Contemporary (early 60s) designs can be great fun but stylus sourcing can, of course, be problematic.
As Pete has pointed out, a level deck is mandatory since there is no possibility of compensatory adjustment. This was introduced in Lenco's subsequent arm, the rare and much sought after P77 (NOT a drop-in replacement).
Brian.
Hi,I use the SC35C with the stock L70 arm, makes a great record cleaner for those 20c finds. :) Sounds good too.
Great reading and suitable cartridges listed here -
http://members.myactv.net/~je183/retro.htm
Rgds
The history of this arm recommends against using it for MM carts.
I have an L70 and the arm was originally designed for playing 78 mono recordings with mono styli. Think 6 to 10 grams of tracking force on average (it goes up to 15g!). It's heavy and has no anti-skate.
Another design quirk - because it doesn't have a counter weight hanging off the rear it must be mounted exactly level or it acts like a pendulum and swings toward the low side - vinyl grooves be damned. Don't ask me how I know... ;-)
That said, it has excellent bearings and can be fine adjusted using the spring dial so you can use it with appropriate modern carts. The lack of anti-skate is less of an issue (so some claim) at higher VTF, so you want a 2.5g plus tracking cart, if possible. Or a mono cart.
From a synergy perspective it appears to be a bad match for a high compliance, low VTF MM cart. The arm will just push the cart around. This arm needs a low compliance heavy cart to match it's design goals.
Check out the cartridge database and focus on low compliance/high VTF candidates.
Your ZU is actually a decent match (except it probably needs some anti-skate even at 2.5g VTF).
I'm going to mount a Denon DL102 on mine (13 massive grams of cart). They should play well together and make terrific mono music. You would have to pay well over $150 on ebay to find a better mono arm if you ever want to go that direction.
Best,
Pete
Thanks everyone for your help...looks like its worth giving the arm a go...I have a rs-a1 hooked up to it at the moment and its giving a very nice, energetic playback...
The tonearms (9 5/8" and 11") Denon made for the DL-103 have no anti-skating mechanism.
Here's the 11" DA-302, from eBay, I believe.
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