Ring Clamps. What do you think?

I have a ring and use it for warped records that do not respond to my center clamp. This certainly improves tracking and thus overall sound.

I would agree that it is a pita putting it on though.

The only tables that I've experienced that will lay flat a warp record are the original concave WTRP platter with reference clamp or a vacuum hold down. So, by your standard 99.99% of all turntables are junk.

If I am misunderstanding your brief quip, please clarify.

Also, because I mainly use it for settling down those warped records that are unmanageable by normal methods does mean that their may be some value to its damping properties. Although I haven't been able to discern a difference with or without it.

I hate that you can't modify your posts here.....anyway....I meant to say "doesn't mean".

Also, you didn't say the tables were junk but rather the rim clamp was. I disagree.anything that takes care of a warp is not junk. Finally, I use TTW's affordable rim clamp, which I bought used for around a buck thirty five, or so.

Let's not compare an instrument that creates music to one that reproduces it. They have different functions.

Speakers maybe the closest to instrument tuning but turntables aim to playback what is in the grooves and eliminate as many extraneous variables as possible. There goal is to reproduce what the cutter created and to that point accurate extraction not added color via creating more resonate points.

Ding....ding...I think you got it when you indicated that it was the platter and not the ring.