Nude Turntable Project

Dear Halcro,
Came late to this discussion but kudos to the review. Ever since I read Raul's piece about nude turntable, I have tried it on my Rek-O-Kut idler turntable and I am very much amazed at what I am hearing. I have the turntable placed on bricks. It looks ugly but the music is beautiful. Any chance you want to try an idler turntable if you have a spare ?
Thanks for confirming what I have been hearing with my stock idler turntable.

Gary, I will chime in here by saying that you need to copy the same material used by Halcro when it comes to armpod. Anything else will just be good but not to the level of sonics performance of that of Halcro. He seemed to me the only person that I know of to have the most correct material.

Gary, I am not referring to the design but that BRONZE is the best choice for armpod that I am currently aware of.

Raul, BINGO on the damping paint. I am yet to encounter anything in the industry that works like the paint. I used it on my MARANTZ 7 STEREO CONSOLE preamp in a painstaking way. First I painted all the resistors and joints in the preamp. Next painted the chasis(three coats)and the tweaked power supply and the glass portion of the after market fuse. When people say blacker backgroung, it is a joke until you have performed this task and listen to the component in question. This preamp is a back-up unit for me but the drop in noise level in unbelievable. I will do it to my TT101 later but will first try the exercise on TT71 when it returns from Applied Fidelity. If you have a unit that you want to keep and have the schematic, go for the gusto. It works wonders on my ML Request speaker. The whole backplate of the speaker including the woofer cabinet was paint(three coats). The speaker is a different beast. Even the accompaning sub(Janis) received the same treatment but this time five coats. The only thing about the sub that vaugely resemble a Janis is the cabinet.

Ecir38,I had the same idea to use bronze in the shape of a bowl and let the bottom sit into it in a tight fit fashion but still leave some space for air circulation. That will definitely be the last tweak if I am not totally satisfied with the damping paint which seems to be a cheaper tweak.

Aigenga wrote---"This excellent support - perfectly leveled (plus I did another adjustment to the height of the bearing thrust plate) has solved all of the start-up problems it was having. It starts immediately and runs at exact speed without hesitation at the push of a button - just as it should".

Is it possible to explain further how this is accomplished and also post some pictures to help a layman like me to fully understand what you have done.

The thrust plate.

Very nice Henry