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Dr. Feickert Analogue Woodpecker turntable

This weekend I brought home a new turntable -- a very classy looking Dr. Feickert Analogue Woodpecker. It was a breeze to set up, as it is really a well designed, well made product.

But what surprised me the most was the very noticeable jump in the sound quality. I originally decided to buy this turntable because I was having trouble installing my Jelco SA-750 10 inch tonearm on my Systemdek IIX turntable. And since Dr. Feickert Woodpecker has a brilliant sliding docking for installing any tonearm up to 12 inch long, I thought at the very least I'll extend the life span of the stylus on my cartridge.

I wasn't expecting such stunning improvement in the sound quality. I was of the opinion that my Systemdek, which is modded and very well maintained, is basically as good as any other table. But no, Woodpecker really left Systemdek in the dust!

Goes to show that turntable really, really matters in the vinyl reproduction equation. The better the table gets, the less distorted the sound becomes. Moral of the story: go with the best turntable you can afford.

crazybookman

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ghdprentice
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Congratulations and thanks for sharing your experience with your new turntable.

 

I think most of us that have been pursuing high quality sound for a long time have had more than one experiences like this. And if you doubled your investment again you would be shocked at how much better that would sound… and so on and so forth. 
 

I’ve been at this for fifty years and have really enjoyed all of my upgrades.

 

Enjoy.

ghdprentice
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@mijostyn

 

+1

 

@JasonBourne Seems to mean a turntable arm and cartridge looks like the pen and arm on the old paper seismographs.


But there are no physical similarities in how the function. 

To prevent my TT from being a seismograph (picking up vibrations) it uses an internal suspension, isolating the plater and tone arm from small vibrations. When I put a Silent Running vibration platform under the TT to absorb the micro vibrations, its sound quality jumped even higher.

 

 

 

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