Oh, dear, what a shame - there can hardly be any remaining African tropical hardwoods which are not endangered.
Still, my conscience is fairly clear, as Wenge wasn’t on any UN list when I bought my plinth a couple of years ago. Indeed it was a selling point of Wenge (a wood that I had never heard of before), that it was not endangered.
Toon thank you for your help. So no evidence of coiled up signal cables here. If my dealer starts coiling up the pick up cables I will tell him to stop! Toon thank you.
The two picture above show a Ittok and an Eks SE/1. Both have a longer headshell than your Ekos SE (or a black Ekos), requiring some carful cartridge wire connector routing. Get the shortest cartridge wires you can and google Peter Swains picture of wire dressing on an Ekos. You have to bend the wire pins (NOT the cartridge pins!) a little to squeeze it all in. With shorter connectors, you shouldn’t need to coil any wires, which doesn’t sound like a good idea.
Interesting. I went from a P3 in to an LP 12 in 1981 & could not believe the huge difference in SQ at the time. I have never made another single system change that has provided such a noticeable improvement.
Just redecorated dining room, No2 LP 12, Jelco/dynavector /DIY wall shelf. IKEA light I found and buried cables in plaster whilst redecorating last week. Room now all olive….not the amplifiers the walls😆
By the way, my dealer has convinced me to build a second one with some used and new stuff which I agreed because I’m looking for a deck with MM cart to use in the second setup.
It’s end up with this one: maple plinth, lingo 4, ARO Kore (thank you Peter @Cymbiosis to supply this), and Krystal.