sme 30/12 vs Lenco

cjfrbw

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I can't be any happier than with my 30/2 with a Coralstone!

I'm completely content with the 30/2 as well. I think with my system setup, I might find an idler arm a bit thick sounding.
 

Ron Resnick

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compare apples to apples then it will be a fair comparison.... Put the SME arm and Atlas on the Lenco or the arm/cart from the Lenco on the SME and it will be apples to apples......

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gian60

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I have a friend with sme 30/12 with V/12 and air tight supreme
With Burmester 077 plus 911 and phono 100 speaker gryphon trident and is very happy with Sme
 

Solypsa

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One my friend has Sme 30/12 with Sme V/12 and Atlas
Pre and amp stereo top Convergent and Tad R1
Now bought also Lenco with a plint of 60 kg,all from Canada with Dynavector 507 and XV1T

He told me Sme with Atlas is more open and clean but he prefers Lenco because has more dynamic,more dense sound and sound seems more real
Also 2 his friends prefer this Lenco.

I will go to listen next days
Regards
iirc you already have a TD 124 and soon a Torqueo so I think we know how you feel :)

Seriously though I have often mused that belt drive dominates the very entry-level of the market (easy to implement) and in many ways dominates the very tip of the top of the market (usually thread drive such as verdier/micro seiki/TD/AS etc..OK so there are all topologies at the top but in general...) however idler and direct drive seem to be the champions at getting top-end performance with (usually) a much lower tariff.
 

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