This Lenco was inspired to a certain degree by the VPI MKIII plinth.  I think it is more elegant, due to the chamfered black-piano-finished bottom of the plinth, which is visible below the oak trim to a depth of 1 inch.  This makes it look slimmer and sleeker. The solid oak box hides a large and deep stripe of "liquid" rubber, more like plasterscene in consistency, which cures in time to hard rubber.  The oak trim is nailed and glued directly to the MDF body, the two extra elements meant to act as "constrained-layer damping" as the whole is a single mass, even if not layered horizontally.  This Lenco body replaced a Maplenoll Athena/Ariadne/Kiseki Purpleheart Sapphire combo as well, which it beat by a large margin when armed with the Rega RB300 re-wired with Cardas and Music Boy interconnects, and mounted with an Accutex 320 MM cartridge.  Other photos show the Rega tonearm in the original Lenco hole, showing the severity of the VTA discrepancy, which one can see is not so severe after all, a tall cartrdige going a long way to mitigating this. 

Despite imperfect VTA and geometry, the Lenco/Rega combo executed this way beats all belt-drives I have heard so far, including some very heavy hitters, and no distortion is audible as the Lenco's supreme speed stability improves cartridge tracking!  So for those who don't want to butcher their Lencos, try this!