Sorry for the typo: please read: "... new plinth for a Sony PS 2250 ..."
Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II
“For those who want the moon but can't afford it or those who can afford it but like to have fun and work with their hands, I'm willing to give out a recipe for a true high-end 'table which is easy to do, and fun to make as sky's the limit on design/creativity! The cost of materials, including 'table, is roughly $200 (depending, more or less), and add to that a Rega tonearm. The results are astonishing. I'll even tell/show you how to make chipboard look like marble and fool and impress all your friends. If there's interest I'll get on with this project, if not, I'll just continue making them in my basement. The next one I make will have a Corian top and have a zebra stripe pattern! Fun! Any takers?”
The Lead in “Da Thread” as posted by Johnnantais - 2-01-04
Let the saga continue. Sail on, oh ships of Lenco!
The Lead in “Da Thread” as posted by Johnnantais - 2-01-04
Let the saga continue. Sail on, oh ships of Lenco!
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I have my doubts or questions as regards inserting a layer of alu or other metal midway in a wood plinth. The danger is that one may be creating an internal reflective surface that will bounce energy back up toward the turntable, instead of permitting it to dissipate in the nether regions of the plinth. (At the interface of two dissimilar materials, energy is transmitted, absorbed, or reflected, depending upon how the two materials interact with each other. This effect is governed by a constant for the two materials that is called the "coefficient of transmission" or something like that.) It all depends on what happens at the panzerholz/alu interface. And that I do not know. |
Thanks Lewm, as the French say, "d'accord," how right you are. I have not even taken receipt of my 'new' used Sony PS 2250 and I have blue prints already finished?! Thanks to all your feedback I shall think things through, which I admit I have not done yet, prior to kicking the chain saw to life. I tried to turn a Kenwood KD 600 into a Linn Sondeck, er, LP12 years ago and, objectively, now probably should and just will sit back and listen to the vintage piece and let it 'speak' to me. No reason to re-invent the wheel (thanks, e.g., to Jean Nantais and Albert Porter)... Still, anyone who has interest in directing me towards achieving the maximum fidelity possible out of this imo gorgeous piece of equipment, I would certainly appreciate it. My slab of panzerholz is going under my SS amp... and my sand/lead shot filled box is going under my TT atop my Target wall mount (at least are my plans tonight :) |
Don't know if of any interest to anybody, but I will start making a moded Lenco in a panzerholz plinth/base. Details here: http://lenco.reference.xooit.fr/t146-Au-commencement.htm in French though..... Cheers, F. |
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