Dr. Feickert Analogue Woodpecker turntable

In defense of Jason, I think he meant to be in total agreement with Mijostyn and ghd. Any turntable fits his metaphor. The goal is to make the TT as insensitive as possible to “seismographic” disturbances. This is analog gospel.

@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.

@panzrwagn , @ghdprentice 

I hate to spoil the party, but a seismograph is exactly what you do not want your turntable to be. It is a vibration measuring device that is supposed to be isolated from the environment. Turntables that are not adequately suspended are reading environment vibration that is ever present in variable amounts.  Get a seismograph App for your phone. out it down on the surface your turntable is on and jump up and down or bang the surface with a fist. Now put the phone on the turntables platter and do exactly the same thing. If you see any reading at all on the platter your turntable is not adequately isolated. 

Congratulations. Great to hear good news. Thanks for sharing.

@jasonbourne71 Not to feed your ego too much, but I loved your 'seismigraph'  observation. That is exactly what a turntable is. And explains not only what an unlikely technology it is to have lasted over a century (!) but why turntables, arms, and carts are the most upgradeable and accessible component for most people. In its primitive analog-ness, people can wrap their heads around the whole idea. Not so much with digital. Witness efforts on this site to discuss DAC technology, DAC filters, sample speed, bit depth and all the rest. 

“Goes to show that turntable really, really matters in the vinyl reproduction equation”

Congratulations on your purchase. Dr. Feickert makes great sounding TT’s. Everything matters in a vinyl setup and it all starts with a solid, well built deck.

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.

Sound advice! A turntable is basically a seismograph reading those minute vibrations engraved on a plastic disk. Better mechanical construction costs more!