Reference Lenco MKIII, Robert, Ottawa 2014 I’m a latecomer to the world of audiophilia. After retiring in 2008, surviving cancer in 2009 and listening to outstanding music at my buddy Jim Gilroy’s studio, I decided to take on the very audacious project of building my own studio, from scratch. I…

The room rocked with ZZ Top’s “Cheap Sunglasses” spinning on a Jean Nantais Reference Lenco rebuilt turntable with a gorgeous spalted, book-matched veneer chassis and a Kuzma tonearm. It uses a Lenco 75 with an idler drive from the 1960s, all tweaked out. (Search “Jean Nantais Reference Lenco” for an…

Classic Lenco MKI Delivered November 18, 2006, reviewed February 13th, 2014, by Bob Olson, Arlington, Virginia Jean, I’m one of your earlier clients and have what may be the very first “Giant Lenco” you built. It’s also one of the earliest tables to have what you called the “glass mod.”…

It has now been almost three years since I purchased the “original” Reference Lenco, and heard it in my own system (February 2010 Review/Essay). During this period, at least until now, I’ve heard only one change (and subsequent improvement), when the internal spring was exchanged for a hanging weight (in…

Part 4: Story Continues Mono & Stereo Reference Lenco is almost ready. Here is the Part four of the Jean Nantais chronological article about making it happen. Read Part 4 of this review here

Part 3: Reference Lenco MKII This is the third instalment in our collaboration with Jean Nantais of www.idler-wheel-drive.com. Enjoy the in depth essay with great photos… This whole thing started back in 1993 in Helsinki, when, in the course of my world travels I met a girl (of course) and…

Part 2: Lenco Idler Wheel Drive MK2 by Jean Nantais Let the Lenco secret begin So here we go into the second installment of Lenco Idler Wheel Drive MK2 by Jean Nantais. This is very elaborate, so please take your time and go through it. Matej Isak Read Part 2…

Part 1: Lenco Idler Wheel Drive MK2 by Jean Nantais There is no secrecy, that I’m a turntable fan if you’re been following my venture for past few years. It’s my topmost guilty pleasure to introduce another exclusive passionate collaboration between Matej Isak of Mono & Stereo and this time…

This is the finest turntable I have ever heard. Now I’ve heard countless turntables in the last 40+ years, in my own system as well as in private homes, showrooms and at audio shows, but none of them can match this turntable in its overall cumulative strengths. While it was…

Howard Fisher, Toronto Canada The Reference Lenco, June, 2012: Jean, I have now spent 3 wonderful months with the Reference Lenco and will do my best to explain how it has transformed my listening room. I previously subscribed to the common audiophile mantra that belt drive turntables are inherently superior.…