Teres Turntable/Soundsmith Strain Gauge System

Raul,

I have some pictures of it. It is similar to the Schroder in that it is a wood armwand and a very low slung counterweight. Not sure how the bearing works. Some say it is better than.... XYZ means little to me. As you would say, w. what cartridge in what system etc.

Raul,

I can not recall the wood that makes up the Teres Reference Tonearm. It is stained the same as the Cocobolo wood of the turntable. The arm is a 2 section wooden arm that has the latest wiring and the latest rca interconnect wiring and connectors to run to the Phono Preamp. The design of the arm is based upon a 10 months or more of Chris's experimentation and I will defer to him to further describe what has gone into its design.

As to the usage of the Still Points, this was I believe what Chris had previously found to be the best performing footers for the Certus Control Box. The Still Points are an extra cost add on for the Verus Motor and Control Box as well. When Chris had first tried the Mystery Feet under the Verus Motor, I believe at RMAF, he observed a noticeable performance improvement. But, he has not had a Certus Turntable available to test as far as I know for the last 6 months or more.

When Chris installed my Teres 450 he informed me that I had what was to be the last very expensive, heavy satin silver finished brass Certus Control Box. So, as I mentioned, Chris had not had an opportunity to play a Certus unit for sometime when we installed the Mystery Feet. The Mystery Feet are "State of the Art" and have been very well received outstanding reviews. They are also among or are about the most expensive feet presently available. In any case, Chris and I both found that there was a dramatic increase in focus, imaging, soundstage, "air", openess, clarity, detail, shimmering high frequencies noted for bells and triangles, life like and relaxed sound, more micro and macro dynamics, percussive performance, controlled bass, blacker backgrounds, etc. How much can be attributed to the interaction with the granite surface of the granite/mdf sandwiched platforms I can not say at this point.

One thing that I forgot to mention was that we also found an marked improvement in the usage of Herbie's Audio large dots under the Teres 450 feet.

The Cartridge and the electronics at this point probably only have maybe 15 hours of break in and we presume that there will be a decided performance improvement at about 50 hours.

Rich

Lewm,

I have had the Dahlquist DQ-10 speakers since 1977 when I bought them from the owner (they had been the owners) of HiFi Haven in New Brunswick, NJ when I was a Grad Student in Zoology/Ecology at Rutgers in NJ. I have had them all of this time, however about 4 or 5 years ago, I worked with Layne Audio and selected all of the best parts (for the best performance) that they had experimented with over the years to modify and rebuild the speakers. As a result, the selection of the replacement Dynaudio, Peerless, and proprietary woofer, wiring, and crossover parts and arrangement. Subsequent to that, last summer, we made some additional modifications to the speakers to bring them to even better performance. At this point they are a 1 of a kind set of speakers that have the original general sound and flavor of the DQ-10s. However, they are much faster, more open, better at imaging, soundstage, better high frequencies, more percussive, much better controlled bass, etc. They would probably be competitive with $10,000+ speakers at this point.

Ultimately the DQ-10s may be used for the rear channel speakers in my 7.1 surround system after I move. I have in mind the front speakers a pair of speakers that are presently in prototype form.

As to the Onkyo Pre/Pro, that is just the previous generation Onkyo Pre/Pro that has had substantial modifications conducted that improves the 2 and multichannel audio performance dramatically.

Dear Dgad and Rich: Thank you for the explanation.

Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.

Thanks, Naturephoto. Carry on. Your determination to improve on a speaker you already must have liked is much like mine with respect to my Sound Lab M1 ESLs. With the help of some bright fellows I met via the old Sound Lab Owners Group, I have re-configured the entire crossover network and made some improvements to the "mixer box" that re-combines the outputs of the two audio transformers (for bass and treble, respectively) that are fed by the cross-over. There is a whole litany of things to do to improve on the Sound Lab power supply. Sound Lab has since adopted many of these same improvements into their factory-built product.