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How to isolate turntable from footstep shake or vibration
Chakster, after I added a Velodyne 15” sub, my Altecs sounded much crisper at the low end and in the midrange, with improved stage imaging.  
How to isolate turntable from footstep shake or vibration
As a general rule, I look for the simplest solution as it is also usually the least expensive. As many others have noted here, set the table on a platform that’s bolted to the wall. It’s worked for me each time, both in my NYC loft (where I held m... 
Sell Me Your Women, Your Children, Your Vintage Turntable...
Fatdaddy: I owned a Garard when I was a high school teenager. It’s in the trash heap. I graduated to a Dual 1229 in college. In 1985 I bought a VPI HW MK II. I upgraded it to a MK IV in 2015 (I was going to trade the MK II in for a VPI Classic, bu... 
Stratospheric audio gear prices
Millercarbon, you are clueless and I’m not going to waste more energy on an individual so ideologically ossified in his value system that he can’t distinguish the difference - or chooses to conflate the two in order to confuse his followers - betw... 
Stratospheric audio gear prices
Pauly 🙄Where have you been? Kansas?  Don’t you know that communism is so that everybody can afford a chocolate eclair?*Get with it, dude. theaudioatticvinylsundays.com*I avoid chocolate eclairs only because I’m trying to avoid dying of diabetes li... 
Stratospheric audio gear prices
Pauly not spell check Paula.  
What Are Your Reference Discs? or Specific Reference Tracks
Imv, a good system will make badly recorded and pressed LPs sound … genuinely interesting and entertaining. My standard for that is almost anything released by Studio 1 from Jamaica. 
Stratospheric audio gear prices
Paula, it’s an iPhone spell check error, not a sign of early onset Alzheimer’s.  
Stratospheric audio gear prices
Millercarbon, regarding your comment about forest, that’s an assertion you will have to back up with a citation. I assert that you are flat out wrong. I can back that up. Here it is:https://www.fia.fs.fed.us/library/brochures/docs/2000/ForestFacts... 
Stratospheric audio gear prices
Sokogear: I agree on the LODR, and the cost of my gear amazingly happens to fall within your range of $20K to $25K. To those who think people are untitled to spend as much as they want on this stuff, I vehemently disagree: on a finite planet with ... 
You mean someone buys this stuff?
I have my turntable sitting on a cabinet that’s bolted to a 10” thick brick wall for a reason  
Do any of you kids , want your system ???
My daughter MALUCA, a singer songwriter performer (she appears here with Robyn in a video that they wrote together https://youtu.be/xOGFdCWC5ls) has recently asked me for my advice on helping her by an audio system set up for vinyl, but what she w... 
Tube vs. Solid State Amplifiers
Wolfie62:the power bulbs thing is cute. Can’t imagine why you would think that would win your argument with anyone, however.  
Sell Me Your Women, Your Children, Your Vintage Turntable...
I have been using the VPI HW with a Sumiko arm since 1985. I went from the HW MK II to the MK IV in 2010. The cartridge is a Koetsu, Black at first, a Rosewood Signature since 2008, and an Onyx since 2012.theaudioatticvinylsundays.com 
Stratospheric audio gear prices
simpletheatre: I would not.