Gromit's music centre...

[Spectral Morn]

Beautiful system, room and photos.

Thanks for sharing Gromit


Regards D S D L

[Marco]

Yo, daftee, his name's Richard

And yes, I agree!

Marco.

[Spectral Morn]

Yo, daftee, his name's Richard

And yes, I agree!

Marco.

Regards D S D L

[Alex_UK]

Looks great Richard, I still think those stands go so well with your Royds, you'd think they were made for them.

[DSJR]

Oi, where's yer P1 spacer then?

There's a 401/SME mounting template on fleabay right now and your arm looks to be a tad too far out. Obviously open to interpretation as your arm could be a touch further forward than the template suggests.

Regarding the Thorens tone arm. It was designed in the days when the Shure M75-EJ was almost "top end" foir many users. I found it possible to tweak the vertical bearings and oil-damp the horizontal ones with little difficulty. It finally seems though, that the hugely mis-understood Lenco L75 arm is now coming into its own once the V blocks are done and a suitable cartridge is fitted.....

[Alex_UK]

Oi, where's yer P1 spacer then?

I believe from my conversation with Richard at Scalford that an eBay seller had let him down, hence why no spacer: (Still sounded a mighty fine system, though, and the Russ Collinson plinth looks even better in the flesh. Me likey!)

[Gromit]

Oi, where's yer P1 spacer then?

I took it off, Dave...

1. Coz the (genuine) SME screws aren't long enough to allow the spacer to be attached firmly - there's not enough thread left on them to really grip into the plinth properly. Keeping the rubber grommets in place on the bedplate, the spacer was loose no matter how tightly I did the screws up - didn't want to force them for fear of stripping the self-tapped threads in the plinth. Removing the grommets from the bedplate and mounting the arm solidly just made it sound 'odd' for some reason.

But more fundamentally...

2. The arm sounds better, even though it's at its height limit, without it.

I'm looking into getting Russ to make up a separate armboard to raise the arm by 5mm or so - that way I can enlarge the present SME-cut slot into a larger hole which will allow other arms to be fitted over it, on their own armboards. I've already had to move bedplate position out another 5-6mm, enlarging the SME slot, to get proper alignment as it was too close to spindle before.

[Gromit]

I believe from my conversation with Richard at Scalford that an eBay seller had let him down, hence why no spacer: (Still sounded a mighty fine system, though, and the Russ Collinson plinth looks even better in the flesh. Me likey!)

Hi Alex - the spacer turned up in a little over 24 hours (well before the Show) it was the SME screws which I was waiting for. They arrived on the tuesday after Scalford, 10 days after I bought them.

[Alex_UK]

Hi Alex - the spacer turned up in a little over 24 hours (well before the Show) it was the SME screws which I was waiting for. They arrived on the tuesday after Scalford, 10 days after I bought them.

Apologies - thanks for clarifying.

[DSJR]

Interesting about the sonics. Shows what would happen in the days when the obvious would have been to add a spacer, despite decoupling the arm further from the board. With V15, I doubt you'd have noticed much difference