A Copernican View of the Turntable System

Jcarr,

As I was posing the questions you were already answering. Synchronicity,

Thanks

Dgob, One advantage of brass: it is pretty soft and therefore very easy to machine. It also looks nice.

Can someone point out to me where (in what post) JCarr listed his preferred materials in order of goodness? I only see where he listed first the preferred methods for creating objects out of solid metals and in a second post the metals that he personally has auditioned. Or Jonathan? Thx.

Daniel (DT): Do you equate speed of the propagation of energy in a material with goodness of the material for use in arm pods, plinths, arm boards, platters, or what?

May I ask all of you if a very heavy outboard armpod as I am using it for the FR-66fx on my Continuum is moving despite the fact that I connected it with a plastic part between the TOHO armpod and the heavy Continuum body - in this way creating a sandwich constellation. I for myself don't believe the TOHO stand will move but I am eager to learn if this is possible anyway.

best & fun only

Dear Lewis (Lewm), IMHO the "conductivity of energy" is a key feature/issue in tonearms and turntables (and associated arm pods, plinth, platters). It is at least if one tries to get the most dynamic, live-like and uncolored sonic results.
It is a key issue - not the only one, but very important and most often overlooked.
Cheers,
D.

Thuchan,
The Toho base is an excellent, heavy base. The issue is not so much one of moving by hundredths of a millimeter as the fact that it may flex or resonate at a different frequency or 'offset' (the timing of the when the wave crosses the zero point) than the table does. Thebase (and its footers) may react differently to flexion or resonance of the platform that it shares with the Continuum than the Continuum does. The plastic thing - whatever it is - between them will not link them so that they share whatever internal resonance they have.

At least that would be the theory of the downside to separates which were nonetheless supremely stable in their own right - the problem which Micro Seikis and the Kenwood L-07D, to some extent the Exclusive P3, and other tables sought to address.