Lenco L-3808 Matt Grey tocadiscos digital USB

Uitstekende platenspeler voor een aangename prijs. Was op zoek naar een goede platenspeler ter vervanging van mijn Philips speler uit 1972 waarvan de snaar te slap werd. Deze speler heeft direct drive, is - ondanks de kunststof behuizing - zwaar en stabiel. eenvoudig te monteren en te installeren en hij doet het uitstekend. Stroboscoop instelling is erg handig en de het lampje voor de positie van de naald op de plaat is een leuke toevoeging. Kortom: een aanrader!

Super platine vinyle avec pré-ampli qui s'intègre aisément dans une chaîne hi-fi.Très bonne restitution sonore avec de bons haut-parleurs connectés à un ampli. Pas besoin de câble gnd. Le rapport qualité/prix est formidable. L'encodage usb est un plus que je n'ai pas encore testé.

Simpel en degelijke platenspeler. Prijs - kwaliteit dik in orde

Dit is mijn 2 de die ik aankoop, gelijk nen echt dj.

De laatste die ik heb gekocht gaat de arm niet altijd naar beneden.

Soms ( ong’ 40 %) moet ik op de arm een klein beetje drukken en dan gaat hij naar beneden.

Voor de rest is het prijs kwaliteit, een goede platenspeler.

Salve,una domanda,in questo periodo se possono fare dei ordini??oppure arriverà il pacco?

Ik heb deze geweldige platenspeler sinds maandag en ben er zeer tevreden mee.
Makkelijk aan te sluiten en mooi geluids overbrenging .

Totaal geen spijt van!

Zeer goede platenspeler die z'n geld meer dan waard is. Hij is van zeer goede kwaliteit en het is erg fijn dat je de naalddruk in kan stellen.
Enig minpuntje is wel dat hij geen autostop functie heeft maar hij loopt niet door tot het midden van de plaat dus dit is niet heel erg.

Price is as good a place to start as any - at a heavy discount over the "cool" white and "old school" black editions



(fluctuating from 156 GBP to 169 GBP and back again, vs. 199 GBP), the grey L-3808 is a bit of a steal. The grey is darker



than pictured, and with the bottom third of the main body (and feet) being black, and the lid a dark smoke, it blends with



other hi-fi equipment of varying shades anyway.



Let's talk about looks in general - detractors are bound to point out that it's just another cheap Technics 1200/1210 rip



off, with only the 33/45 speed buttons in a different position ... and to a certain extent they're right - if you read



"cheap" as excellent value, and "rip off" as "tried and tested layout/features".



Personally, I like the layout and wouldn't dream of buying a turntabe without a strobe and pitch adjustment, even if I'm



unlikely to ever use them in anger again. Physically, when compared against a 1200/1210 it feels a bit cheap and rattlely -



but that's not comparing like with like. Once you get you head past the inevitable comparison, it actually feels fairly



heavy and solid compared to anything else at a similar price.





To be honest, I hadn't bought from Bax before, and only pushed the button on this due to price. I needn't have worried



though, having bought on a Saturday lunchtime, tracking information was soon sent showing it had left from Holland &



arrived (via Parcelforce van) the following Wednesday.



The outer box (white & printed with the Bax logo & artwork in black and pink) had taken a bit of a kicking - quite



literally as well as some scuffs, scrapes and crumpling, there was a 50mm wide hole in it. Not a problem though - thanks to



the Bax box being well oversized and stuffed with air pillows, the Lenco box was fine.



The product box is, on the outside, fairly minimal with photos of the turntable & key features against a white background.



On the inside it's a pair of expanded polystyrene forms with everything else hidden by a semi opaque polythene bag. A label



indicates you should grab a big handful of the latter and pull to remove from the box, but I found the fit so tight a



second person and gravity assistance was needed.







Once out, you'll find a felt slipmat, cast alloy platter, 45rpm adaptor, counterweight, headshell (with cartridge, stylus



and stylus protector prefitted), lid, manual (plus software CD, interconnects & USB lead) as well as the main unit itself



are all separately bagged/covered with thin foam, and taped to the polystyrene forms. All the parts seem robust, and



heavier than I'd expected at this price point. Looking at the main unit though, it's evident that the plastic upper deck is



used across multiple models, with an unused 240/110 voltage switching void, unused belt drive clearance loop, and a rather



disappointingly small sticker blanking off the void where the motor would come out, if it were a belt drive turntable.



Assembly is straightforward (note that the lid is potentially quite finger-snappy when closing), however the tracking



weight setup is a little tricky, so to expand on what the manual says:



- push the counterweight all the way forward on the shaft. You can ignore the position of the plastic scale portion, as



long as it's facing forward;

- with the headshell, cartridge and stylus fitted (and with the stylus protective cover removed), make sure the lowering



lever is all the way forward, and the tonearm is clear of the support/clamp;

-ignoring the scale, twist the metal part of the counterweight backwards until the tonearm is balanced level. I found there



was some drag in the pivot, so jiggled the tonearm up/down a little and made adjustments until it consistently returned to



level;

- tracking weight is now set at zero, so you can go ahead and rotate the plastic scale (WITHOUT moving the metal portion)



to show zero (i.e. "0" uppermost, in line with the white marker line on the shaft);

- to adjust the tracking weight, hold BOTH the scale and the metal weight at the same time, and rotate BOTH as the same



time until the desired weight is shown;

- set the anti skate force to the same figure.





I found that at the recommended tracking weight of 2g, records played fine, but the tonearm tended to fly uncontrolled



across the lead in to each side, and especially across the dead wax at the end of the side - and up on to (and across) the



label. So not "fine" really. Increasing it to 2.25g didn't improve matters, but upping the tracking weight to 2.5g did.



After a bit more experimentation, I was able to reduce it very slightly to 2.4g without problems, obviously the lighter the



tracking weight, the better.







Sound output is a little quieter than my previous back bedroom/budget turntable (an elderly Technics SL-BD2 with OE cart &



generic Japanese stylus), though I haven't tried using the "Line" level output on the back on the offchance that the built



in preamp on the turntable is better than that built into my (Pioneer) reciever.



On the plus side, the sound is well balanced between bass & treble ends of the range, and overall better than you might



think for the price - one of the first records I listend to on it was Schoolly D's "Somewhere In The Land Of No Rap" (aka



"The Yellow Album" or regarded as eponomously titled) from 1986 - a sparse sound in a genre/period known for sparse sounds



- and actually heard some subtleties I hadn't heard before on other setups. I have to admit I'm on a bit of an old skool



Electro & Hip-Hop jag at the moment, but just about everything else I've thrown at it (Folk, Country, various flavours of



Rock, pop from the 60s through to the 80s, Ambient, Skiffle, Comedy/Spoken Word etc) has been a clear and involving listen,



even if the material was well outside my usual comfort zone. If fact, the only thing I've tried so far that has been a bit



meh/underwhelming was a 2016 heayweight re-press of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of The Moon", but I suspect that's got more to



do with me having gone off it (mentally filing it under "unwanted gift" - or even "a bit wanky") than the quality of the



recording.





Despite the lack of a grounding wire, no hum was evident on playback either through a conventional Deck -> RCA



interconnects -> Amp -> Speaker setup, or playing through the USB cable through Audacity running on a PC.



If you haven't used Audacity before, let me tell you that it's a slightly ropey, but free and surprisibly powerful way of



playing records through your PC, recording them, correcting obvious pops (and crackle, if you're willing to spend the



time), splitting sides up into tracks, and exporting them into tracks of pretty much any recognised audio format, with



varying degrees of compression. MP3 files are the most obvious, portable and widely compatible format - but a word of



warning, at "standard" compression, MP3s loose a lot of the immediacy, clarity, subtlety (and other words ending in -y ;) )



compared to the original turntable output - so you might want to upgrade your thinking about which format to use (or at



least the compression rate).







Anything else ... on the plus side, the interconnect leads are separate with RCA plugs on the back of the unit (so are



easily upgradable), whereas on a lot of "budget" units they tend to be permanently attached internally (so called "flying



leads"). On the minus side, the mains lead is of the "flying" variety, is a bit thin and inflexible, and terminates in a



moulded on, two prong Euro type mains plug, necessitating the use of an adaptor (Bax provided a tidy one - for free, to



their credit).



The strobe light is aimed very heavily towards the 60hz bands on the platter, which is distracting and unhelpful if you



live in a 50Hz country like the UK ... at some point I'll look at the (warranty voiding) possibility of changing the aim,



in the meantime I'll live with it, or more likely put a bit of black tape over part of the strobe housing window. (N.B. -



some genuine 1200/1210s are a bit shabby in this regard too).



The pop up "target" light isn't that great either, gaining full height with a "Thump" that reverberates the top deck, and



through your speakers. The actual light output is a bit feeble, yellow and not very well aimed either.



There's no 78rpm setting (although a 78 stylus is available for the cartridge) - this might be a problem if you're A) 120



years old, or B) wanting to digitize great-great-grandmother's collection.





These are all minor criticisms though - the questions really should be "does it sound good?" (yes) and "is it robust



enough?" (again, yes).



Considering the price, 9 out of 10 & would recommend it :L





Plusses :

- Looks quite good

- Sounds very good

- excellent value

- USB connectable

- RCA sockets

- well built (mostly) / heavy for the price

- Phono/line level switch (i.e. built in preamp)



minuses

- flying mains lead

- doesn't do 78s

- some cost saving measures a bit too obvious

- not a straight out of the box experience, tracking weight in particular needs careful setting up







TL;DR ("too long, didn't read" version): Grows on you. Very good for 200 GBP, an absolute steal at 156 GBP.

Na jaren de wens voor een leuke pick-up vervuld en geen seconde spijt! Zeer goede waar voor je geld en een echt fraai apparaat dat solide aanvoelt en duurder lijkt dan het is. Makkelijk aansluiten op mijn Marantz-receiver die geen phono-ingang heeft: gewoon de meegeleverde kabel naar een andere apparaatingang en de schakelaar aan de achterzijde van de draaitafel van phono naar line. Geluid is mooi vol en bevat alle details. Ik dacht alleen dat deze draaitafel meer vol-automatisch was. Je moet echt zelf de naald boven de plaat brengen en de arm met een hendeltje omlaag laten zakken. Ook aan het eind van de plaat geen automatische afslag: de plaat draait eindeloos door in de eindgroef, tot je de arm omhoog doet en terugbrengt en zelf weer op stop drukt. Mooie verlichting voor controle van het toerental dat je indien nodig of gewenst makkelijk aanpast met een pitch-schuif. USB-uitgang voor opnames en CD met (open-source) software en USB-kabel keurig meegeleverd - overigens nog niet getest maar een leuk vooruitzicht om naar PC te kunnen overzetten. Zelfs het adaptertje voor singles is meegeleverd en heeft een eigen plekje. We genieten van oudere en nieuwere platen - top aanschaf!