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| Turntable Platform - What do you place your TT on I found on the limited budget nothing can beat the sand box with the top plate of 1" aluminum and bunch of transistor heat radiators bolted to its bottom and fully sunken into sand. Tried marple blocks, all kinds of compliant and rigid interface d... | |
| Why Use Aluminum for a TT Platter? "I find that paper based phenolic, like Garolite XX, makes an exceptionally good sounding platter."Hi Cris, do you still think cocobolo wood is the best platter material available? I'm personally a big fan of your wooden platter; happy with my DIY... | |
| Maple platform under turntable, How thick? I was happy with my a la Mapleshade 4" maple block on cork/rubber pads, untill I decided to try (based on A-gon thread) aluminum top plate on sandbox. Bunch of transistor heat radiators are bolted to the bottom of 3/4" anodized aluminum plate and ... | |
| I think I am going to attempt to make turntatbles Another catch in repelling magnets idea is a strong side force applied on the magnets and hence on the journal bearing, if any slightest non-concenricity of the two magnet fields exists. Magnet levitation is inherently unstable. Try to bring oppos... | |
| I think I am going to attempt to make turntatbles Nowdays it is easy to find strong magnets for cheap on web. But,be warned that isolation from strong magnet field is extremely difficult. I have abandoned this idea after messimg around with multiply mu-metal sheet screens; my best attempt reduced... | |
| I think I am going to attempt to make turntatbles Agree with Vernneal. It only make sense if you enjoy the process of designing and building by itself. I do, so I'm having lot of fun along with enjoying the music on the long run; I also have learned great deal about audio. Otherwise, it is not ju... | |
| Are linear tracking arms better than pivoted arms? Darkmoebius, Thales armshell plate is driven by yoke only in vertical plane (top view on LP); it rocks in horizontal plane together with armtube, as much as any conventinal gimbal arm does (note another small horizontal pivot just behind the shell... | |
| Are linear tracking arms better than pivoted arms? Excentric records kill all theoretical advantages of passive linear trackers. Doing simple math, you can see a side force as large as up to 1.0 gramm peak applied to the cantilever when say, 200 gramm of slider+arm mass is driven by 1 mm out-of-ce... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I was lucky to score NOS Stanton 881s (stereohedron stylus) on e-bay inspired by this thread. Here is my take of the MM/LOMC battle after living with 881 for two months. My TT allows to play with two tonearms (even simultaneously), so it was a non... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul, what tonearms suit better for high compliance MM carts? Super light arms like SME series III, WT and other carbon fibres arms come to mind, but they do not look very good in vibrations damping department. I was lucky to get NOS Stanton ... | |
| Magnetic repulsion? I've played with pair of 3" ring magnets: it easily supports my 32 kg 4" thick platter placed below it. But the magnet field went up to 20 gauss measured at the record plane - to much! Three layers of mu-metal sheets did not help much. There is an... | |
| Tables That Feature Bearing Friction Dertonarm, magnet and air bearings also have their own drawbacks. Magnet bearing a'la Verdier bears the platter weight with no friction but features conventinal journal bearing, which is more loaded, and most importantly less evenly loaded due to ... | |
| Seeking Headphone Reccomendation I had Senn 600 and then upgraded to Senn 650. To get an idea whan 650 can really do, you have to hook it to dedicated headphone amplifier; Singlepower MPX3 is an excellent pair for it. I tried it with headphone output of intergated NAD: 650 sounde... | |
| Upgrade for users of 1/2" mylar belt I just want to stress importance of keeping your belt clean. I left it as-is for half a year because of my lazyness. Now I got it cleaned with alcohol: amaizing amount of dust deposit removed and I realized what I missed.It seems all sonic goodies... | |
| Upgrade for users of 1/2" mylar belt Doug, thanks a lot for sharing your worthwhile experience!I've tried it on my TT with huge success. Your belt replaced McCormic's black mylar tape and profound improvement accross the board was a revelation for me: my playback became better in eac... |