TT to another room, no vibs, better sounds?



Hi All,

A few years ago I thought I'd build a Turntable that is still about a year from being finished. The thought was mass is where it's at. If it's heavy it will take more energy to get it excited and vibrate.

After I picked up a few thousands dollars in parts my machinist asked me what I was trying to accomplish. My response was," The heavier it was the less it would vibrate."

He said, " Take it out of the vibrational environment and save money." I can do that soon and wonder if anyone else had the same thought and realized a cost effective improvement instead of spending more money on a better TT.

"Out of the mouthes of babes," Your thoughts,

ken
kftool

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Yes, you are on to something as the acoustic vibrations created by the speakers will excite all the objects in the listening space. I isolated all my equipment in a adjoining space when I built a custom media room. The results were a significant improvement in the performance of all my components. Nothing is immune to air-borne vibrations of the speakers acoustic energy. I've been working with a friend in making an 'acoustic screen' to be used around an equipment rack. Hopefully it will come to market early next year.
"i don't think tonearms are affected by air borne reasonace". Really. Read that vibrations too. Think about it, the interplay of the low mass tonearm and the room 'excitment' will make any plinth mass and its stand the least of your problems. Just hold you finger on the arm and you will feel the resonance and vibration. Since the cartridge is coupled to the arm, that is affected also. The Rockport at the Sony mastering facility in New York City, which Sony uses for extracting record source material for which the masters do not exist anymore, has no speakers in the room. All is done with headphones. Sony found that putting speakers in the room had a significant negative impact on the extraction process.