DENON HA 500, just a photo gallery

[Rare Bird]

Bollocks.... If I remember rightly, it came in a kind of black powder-coated metal box with a little silver toggle switch on the front, and it was powered by a 9V battery

I remember the combo I had in the early 80s of the Ariston RD11s/Linn Basik LVV (with heavy AT magnesium headshell)/DL-103 into the MM phono stage of the Sondex S-230, with the Lentek head amp, was sublime!

Marco.

[Marco]

That's the very boy!

Nice to read the write-up... I couldn't agree more with the comments.

Now, Master of Ebay, all you need to do is find me one!

(There'll be a special wee prize for you when you do)

Marco.

[DSJR]

FFS people!!!!!

You guys are wetting yourselves on things that the bandwidth limited Naim 12S preamp (with mc boards inside) driven by a SNAPS absolutely shit over at the time, despite the fancy blingy boxes and slick button-work. KJ sold them all and I had the chance to dabble with many of these things at the time.

The Lentek is a hissy, grainy little beastie which eats batteries (300 hours my a*se!). Fine with the early Entre syrup pudding which it was designed for, but not a patch on a decent SUT in my opinion. Beware of the switch-on THUMP too.

I don't think many of you are aware of just how dramatically better the early Naim stuff was, despite the garage (ok, living room) build in the early days. Many a beautifully over-crafted Japanese concoction was truly audibly slaughtered by a NAC22/NAP120 in bolt-up livery.

I'm too old. I've seen this stuff first time round and to see it go for the prices it does over 30 years later is just lunacy IMO when better can be had for peanuts today..

Here endeth the lesson while I crawl back under my stone....

[Marco]

When I obtain a Lentek, Dave, I'll tell you whether you're right or not, as I shall compare it to the A23....

I'm just curious (based on what I remember from years ago), and if all it costs me is £50 (sweety money ), it'll be worth a bit of fun!

Marco.

[Rare Bird]

FFS people!!!!!

You guys are wetting yourselves on things that the bandwidth limited Naim 12S preamp (with mc boards inside) driven by a SNAPS absolutely shit over at the time, despite the fancy blingy boxes and slick button-work. KJ sold them all and I had the chance to dabble with many of these things at the time.

The Lentek is a hissy, grainy little beastie which eats batteries (300 hours my a*se!). Fine with the early Entre syrup pudding which it was designed for, but not a patch on a decent SUT in my opinion. Beware of the switch-on THUMP too.

[DSJR]

£80 more like, judging by a recent sale as I recall..

These things are now collectors items and so much far eastern gear of this period is a mugs eyeful - I love looking at the stuff and twiddling all the knobs I'm sure the Lentek will be a fine and useful toy (as the X10-D I bought from Clive is proving to be), but today, with elderly caps etc, much of this stuff is very poor, especially when Glenn is making such wonderful gear of HUGE superiority today for not much money, relatively speaking...

You guys must forgive me. The likes of hifi dave and I have been around a VERY long time (especially hifi dave...).. It's all old hat to us you see....

If you want a cheapish MC headamp, seriously, try to find a Naim 12s or 22 (or one of the myriad 42's about). get a cheap 24V regulated supply from Maplins and wire a 4 pin DIN plug correctly. get another interconnect made - 5 pin to phono's on pins 1 and 4 and use from the tape output socket (or adapt the line out one if you want to vary the gain). For £100 or less, you'll have a great sounding MC phono stage with shedloads of tweakability/bodgability on tap....

[Marco]

Lol - Dave, with respect, you can waffle away until the cow's come home - it doesn't matter a jot... As always, the proof of the pudding will be in the listening, and if the Lentek sounds good in my system, then you can take it for granted that it *IS* good!

The benchmark will be the A23, and if it gets near that through the Croft, then all your blustering will be nothing more than the blinkered ramblings of an aspergic old fool!



Marco.

[Rare Bird]

Lol - Dave, with respect, you can waffle away until the cow's come home - it doesn't matter a jot...

[DSJR]

It will be as described, I promise you.....

Blinkered, Aspergic old fool eh? The cheek of it.....

[Marco]

I do love having these little 'contretemps' with 'our Dave'... It usually results in me being proved right!

M3D {Cough}, Stanton {cough, cough!}

Marco.