New guy

[Lomas]

I’m Steve, just getting some new sound equipment set up in the house. Got a Lenco turntable L 90 recently and have bought a pair of Kef Cresta 100 w speakers. At the mo I have it jimmy rigged to an old Sony amp that I had laying about. I’m mainly looking for advice to get some nice sounding old hi fi equipment to work with the lenco l90 and possibly a better amp for the Kef Cresta speakers.
Music wise I’m all over the place from soul blues rock reggae folk anything that is satisfying not a massive on electronic music but am happy to try new music. I’m 40 I am originally from Cape Town but live in Tynemouth on the north east coast of England.
Cheers.

[struth]

Hi Steve. Welcome. Lencos are popular here as is vinyl in general. Hope you enjoy the forum

[Light Dependant Resistor]

Hi Steven
Welcome to the forum. I used to have Kef cresta's and found extending the rear facing port with a cardboard
or other type of cylinder, transformed them. About 1ft was ideal, give it a go.

Usually with audio separating your phono stage to be dedicated to that task, then similarly
attenuation and power amplification, leads to good result. So I would be looking at power amps
rather than integrated types. With power amps a Quad 306 is hard to beat, it was nice and sensitive
so requiring just passive attenuation as your preamp.

Eric Gale's Multiplication is a ripper of a Blues album, have you got that one ?

Cheers / Chris

[walpurgis]

Hi Steven. Welcome to AOS.

I'm not familiar with the Lenco L90, but I'm sure members can advise on a system built around it. Try starting a thread in the Blank Canvas section and describe your ideas, I'm sure you'll get plenty of opinions.

There's a lot going on here, so feel free to join in any chat that interests you.


Enjoy the forum,
Geoff.