Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II

To the unbelievers!
The Lenco is indeed a FANTABULOUS machine!!!
As to Jean's great efforts to prove the Lencos attributes- dead on stability, clean, quiet and and vibrant dynamics- attributes which allow the cartridge to ride in the groove with such incredible accuracy, my LPs bring chills both mellow and exciting- ignore the fools who don't want to believe, the ones who will only listen to some high paid reviewer, right or wrong, and allow them to form their opinions for them. (Remember, it means more Lencos for us).
Thanks Jean. Sorry about the customs frustration. I've had items sit in Italy and Korea for weeks. I understand.

I believe. I got an idler. I'd get a Lenco if they were laying around. don't pride yourself on finding something that people have been doing for a while on their own. sheesh.

So I guess the Johnnantais gave me his comeuppance. I guess I am all pro the idler and a wee bit all blanched out on the Johnnantais cult.

I guess you cannot say anything even slightly off color about the Johnnantais or you get an attitude from him and a lot of puffery.

I don't care really. Well I am off to bed now one and all. To dream idler dreams. I will arise tomorrow and sniff the thinning air for idler parts and make my daily trip to the Home Depot in Calais. Rhodes will see me next where I will bluster and puff my way through a powdery cloud of hoofah.

you guys have GOT to be joking.

well, I guess we will not see an outside non-vested party review the Johnnantais Lenco. That would put a little objective twist to things which I can only conclude that the Johnnantais does not really want.

All together now, "Good luck Johnnantais, we all love you immensely".

I am now finally completing my humble refurbishing of my TD-111. The plinth is at least on a par with the Johnnantais tables I have seen. I am willing to do an independent shootout if the Johnnantais would send me a Lenco.

BTW, this Direct Coupled thing? My understanding is that 99.9% of all idlers were direct coupled to plinth, panels, tables, consoles, etc as they were originally built for installment that way. Nothing new or Revolutionary in the direct coupled approach, it is the standard approach. There have been sprung supports and skeletal supports but I think those are more outside the box that this not new Direct coupled approach.

Dear Gadfly,
Tell me more about your TD-111 and less about your personal obsession with Jean and what you think he did or did not claim to invent or discover. No one gives a darn either way.

Dear everyone else,
Jean built me a giant plinth for my Lenco. I've had it up and running for about a week. The results are cosmetically beautiful, and the sound is divine. It makes good sounding LPs sound better than ever before and breathes life into previously disappointing ones. For these things, I am grateful to those who brought idler-driven tts to my attention in the first place and to Jean for his labors and insights.

personal obsession with Jean? I didn't think they'd post that first one so I wrote another but then and now I see that there is no gainsaying the goofy.

I don't give a darn either. bye bye. Johnnantais invented the internet.