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History is not on your side...

Posted by P Fowler on May 27, 2008 at 06:50:21

In Reply to: Cartridge for a Lenco L70 with original tonearm posted by boydkorab@hotmail.com on May 27, 2008 at 06:00:53:

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

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