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Whats on your turntable tonight?
On table ....Antonio Carlos Jobim WAVE and Terra Brasilis, Jazz Samba by Getz & Byrd, Donald Fagen Nightfly....As for CD's tonight , trying not to play these CD's too much, Bugge Wesseltoft, Supreme Beings of Pleasure, 0'2L, Sweetwater, Cinema... 
Raven Audio Nighthawk MK3
Raven Audio allows one to return a unit for full credit in exchange for buying up the product line within one year. I thought the Blackhawk sounded more like what I'd be satisfied with but the reviews claimed the Nighthawk was great so why not try... 
Raven Audio Nighthawk MK3
Back in the old days...McIntosh (solid state only), Crown, Luxman,  most recently the Cambridge Audio Azur 651r, (which has a direct mode to bypass all the crap circuitry of a AV receiver) ....I knew my amp was my one big weak spot. But I didn't w... 
Raven Audio Nighthawk MK3
One of the downsides of being an audiophile is the tendency to OCD focus on the slightest flaws in reproduction quality. Yet that also is one of the upsides of this hobby. Refining the sound to meet one's expectations can be extremely satisfying. ... 
Raven Audio Nighthawk MK3
Addressing your question of hum and/or noise with Raven Nighthawk. Yes, at first noisy. Realized with Klipsch Lascalas sensitivity and Raven tube combo I needed to really isolate everything. We all know not to lace AC cords with speaker cables, et... 
homemade turntable vibration isolation platform
For pics please send to my email at : donallenchilds@yahoo.com. Sorry for inconvenience....I'll respond with pics from there....sorry again...thanks for interest....I'd like to see if others will experience sound improvements like I did. Easy to b... 
homemade turntable vibration isolation platform
As for mass...a 2 pound record weight rides along to keep things solid. Deer skin platter mat. Cambridge Audio phono pre amp. The analog fever on the cheap. Leveling is perfect due to easily adjustable toggles on mid weight bungees through posts. ... 
homemade turntable vibration isolation platform
That's why I say I got lucky. Without any special knowledge, out of abject desperation, I built this suspended platform. I realized just how lucky after I tried to replicate it in a different form. Footfall problems even got magnified in one attem... 
homemade turntable vibration isolation platform
If you want pics please email me at donallenchilds @yahoo.com. I'm very interested whether or not it will make a similar improvement for others systems.  If you think about it, what makes a cheap turntable different from audiophile ones? Tone arm ... 
homemade turntable vibration isolation platform
To describe the idea....four posts 10" tall solidly posted at corners. Bungee cords running through top of each post and connected under 14"X14" platform causing it to be suspended between posts. Turntable sits on suspended platform. Works great.....