Durand record weight ha ha ha ha - and other crazy thing
I heard that a Durand record weight costs 3500 USD. - that is just bonkers - we are truly entering the twilight zone of hi-fi - sorry. can anyone else think of similarly stupid products
What we need is a shoot out between the Durand and the Shun Mook Mpingo record weight which, if I'm not mistaken, actually costs more than the Durand anyway, you know, due to the prohibition against farming that particular wood in Gabon or whatever.
astro58go 185 posts 09-04-2016 2:34pm I find that the need for a record weight's make-up is due to each individual recordings' misgivings, not the TT one plays that record on.
It might be a good idea at this point to mention that certain materials - such as ebony -act as resonators and therefore mechanically gripping the ebony weight to the record kind of defeats the whole purpose. Ebony should be allowed to resonate. It’s a natural material. It breathes. I actually used to sell ebony turntable weights way back when.
rogerabbit 7 posts 09-05-2016 2:01pm To: geoffkait
"You couldn’t use this or any other clamp on a CD player because of the weight.
The CD mechanism is not designed for this."
I beg to differ, Mr. Rabbit. The Sony SACD player (I forget the model number) actually comes with a relatively heavy brass weight. Surely there are others. Besides all CD transports rattle like hell. They should do SOMETHING.
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