A Copernican View of the Turntable System

That's a clever idea Dover.
Thanks :-)

Dear Halcrop: Not big deal. A design mistake in the Raven means only that but I think that's not the rule. I just checked ( because your post ) my two AS that use three arm boards each one cantilevered type atached at the down plate of the plinth: all six arm boards are leveled with the platter and plinth and the motor too.

The Lewm statement about in theory is absolute right, things are is that our ears can't perceive any " error/distortions " with our stand alone arm board/towers. Such is life.

Regards and enjoy the music,
R.

Dear Raul,
You're lucky...........But as Syntax says........intelligent design and precision should eliminate the need for 'luck' in our systems?....don't you think?
Regards
Henry

03-06-13: Peterayer
Syntax, I presume that digital level also reads 0.0, 0.0 while it rests on the platter.

click me softly

Like Halcro wisely wrote, we do not need luck, we need someone who does something right.....btw. did you ever check the Pulleys from the super-duper VPI TNT motor .... but I think, the unlevel Armboards from the Raven are the compensation for the unstable motor management.....it is a design feature

Dear Halcro: Agree. Btw, the problem with the MS 5000/8000 is that the cantilevered arm boards came with a screw to fix it and there there is a " play/loose " between the arm board hold hole and the tube where the arm board be fix it and if the owner don't check how the arm board was fix it chances are that is out of platter level. Micro Seiki is IMHO a bad TT design, I don't use it any more but other people " die for it ". Such is life.

Regards and enjoy the music,
R.