Dust cover up or down?

Technics down. Vpi up. 

It is true the cover may transmit air-borne vibrations to the stylus/disc interface.

But it may also be true that it shields that interface from those vibrations by acting as a a barrier whose micro flexures absorb them.

Anyhow my TT has no cover so I can't hear it.   Plus it doesn't seem to become inordinately dirty.

I think many audiophiles over-analyse.  That is ANAL ise.

And hands up please anybody who has observed any tracking weight variation at all with lid up or down using an electronic scale that measures to 0.01 gramme??

So let's kill that one right off.

HI

As with most things in life the answer is……it depends! I have a VPI HW 40 with a dust cover and it works and sounds the same with the cover up or off. If you want that extra bit of assurance that the dust cover won’t negatively impact the sound, you could attach a piece of bubble wrap on the underside of the cover and away you go. My VPI HW 40 is used with a Kisiki Purpleheart and Sutherland phone stage.

Cheers

Jerry 

Keep dust cover down if you like bad sound and STATIC.

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