New Maplenoll Ariadne owner needing advice

Thank goodness for "rats". Rather than another tear down , I relied on suggestions contained in Jim Smith's book "Get Better Sound". I then repositioned the Table just outside of the room where it sits atop a refirbished Townshend Turntable Sink that sits upon a Target Wall Stand. The equipment rack was re-aligned to sit side by side facing into the Listening Room. Next to the equipment rack sits a solid oak shirt & tie cabinet that's been converted to hold audio supplies. The SP 10 MKI (late edition) controller sits atop a 4x15x18" maple block, over the top shelf of the Target Stand that comes with a spiked underside that itself rests on solid brass inverted cups to seat the 4 spikes in the cross-member of the 5 shelf stand itself that has been modified with a special dampner to suppress "ringing" without destroying the harmonic decay inherient in the stands. Each shelf is lightly dampted in the corners as are all spikes in the set-up. The Target Stand sits upon a Karastan carpet square (@$50 per yd. retail) , as does the supply cabinet. I scored the squares from a local carpet shop all bound for a handshake. Sometimes "Rats" are good.

Charlie---If you need some tonearm wire--AMsystems or Phoenix wire sells medical grade teflon coated silver wire that will work well and can be cut to length. It can be all the way to 0.001 diameter (i did 0.003) and is wonderful if you are handy with solder iron. Makes a big difference and the thin wire helps from a tonearm standpoint. I tried the thicker wire but did not work well because it impacted the free play of the tonearm. Piedpiper warned me about that and he was right.

Oilmanmojo: Many thanks for the information. I hope wrote clearly on the set-up. Smith recommends several ideas that I incorperated into the room that is far from done. I highly recommend his book. My "rats" take was my version of "lemons make lemonaide". Charlie

Checked out the sites. Thank You ! More to come , Charlie

I have an Ariadne that was recently purchased for me by my wife for our anniversary! Anyway, the previous owner had owned the table since new and apparently this table was used at a Chicago CES almost 20 years ago. He said he bought the table directly from Bob Dilger. The owner said that this table was plug and play and it rarely required adjustment. Anyway, I took the turntable home and was able to quickly set it up (1/2 hour) and it played amazingly well for a couple of hours. I put on an old Grado Reference Sonata and I never heard it sound better. I was really captivated by the performance of this turntable.

Then the original silent pump overheated and no longer works! I can't believe it!

I called Lloyd Walker who told me that it was a 1/6 horsepower Refrigerator compressor with the coolant drained and with oil poured in as a lubricant. The pump has wooden decorative exterior cover. The pump itself is attached to a small air chamber and there are 2 larger air chambers (the very large one was apparently called a Scud by Bob Dilger) that are connected by 500 feet of hose. Anyway, my question is if anyone else has replaced this pump with a modern equivalent refrigerator compressor? Any other suggestions regarding air pumps. My version has the 50 pound platter.

Also the original owner said he never used the oil trough because it was not worth the trouble and sonically it really didn't make that much of a difference. Would like to know your opinions of the oil trough. Bob