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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I use an all horn system with 2 massive basshorns.The space between these two horns forms a funny shaped little room where my eqp is kept.Because this room is formed by the basshorns it is more of a bunker,The floor is a meter thick solid concrete as is the roof and the 2 curved walls are 18 inch brick and mortar. The door is made of constrained layers of wood and mdf and weighs more than 200lbs.

And the point of this boring bit of info? Well all eqp in there still benefit from isolation feet ,special stands and other usual measures and my Thorens Reference table still outperforms my Michell Orbe to the same degree it did out in the open.Of course the eqp does sound better thn it does when placed in the listening room.

Strangely not seeing the eqp and staring at it all the time has done wonders for Audiophilia Nervosa. The stuff is full of fingermarks,the phono stage LED died 4 years ago and I couldn't care less
I have been fiddling with a huge broadcasting idler wheel turntable all weekend. While adjusting it in the garage with headphones plugged into its integral electronics I was most perplexed by an intermittent drone with the arm at rest . Then I realised the Grace professional arm and Stanton cart was acting like a microphone faithfully reproducing every vehicle that passed in the street 50 yards away.

Now it may not be a Rockport but there are degrees of everything.