Tonearm mount on the plinth or on Pillar ?

Halcro


"It is only when sound pressure of a sufficient volume (and that's important) at a material's Resonant Frequency occurs...that the material can 'vibrate'."

I want to be sure that I have interpreted your statement here accurately.

What you are saying is this....A material will NOT vibrate as a result of acoustical excitation unless that acoustical excitation is at the resonant frequency of the material and that this acoustical excitation is of sufficient energy.

Is this a correct summation of what you just posted?

Cheers. 

Halcro
Further expansion of my last question....
Are you saying that, with accoustical excitation, the material will ONLY vibrate if the excitation frequency is the resonant frequency of the material?

IOW. Accoustical excitation at frequencies other than the materials resonant frequency will result in NO vibration in the material, regardless of the energy level of this excitation?

cheers. 

Accoustical excitation at frequencies other than the materials resonant frequency will result in NO vibration in the material, regardless of the energy level of this excitation?

"Acoustical excitation"....? I'm unfamiliar with that term in the scientific sense. Can you please explain its meaning?
As I stated, acoustic theory as I studied it, related to materials science and air-borne sound transmission accepts that there are only three  physical observable factors.

• Reflection
• Absorption
• Transmission

Apart from the sub-atomic level at which some say everything is vibrating.....a material cannot vibrate unless its resonant frequency/frequencies are excited. And even then it may not be noticeable or destructive unless the amplitude (volume) is sufficient.
That is why the famed 'myth' of the glass of wine/water being made to shatter when a singer hits the resonant frequency has only been scientifically observed when the volume was increased to 115dB if I recall correctly?

Now here is a serious new turntable...
http://www.analogplanet.com/content/dietrich-brakemeirs-apolyt-turntable-aims-be-worlds-finest-and-m...
Dietrich knows a thing or two about turntables, arms and cartridges.
And gosh....what are those?
They look like tonearm pods and did he say in the interview that the tops of the pods are totally isolated from the plinth and structure?
Just like the famed Continuum Caliburn turntable with its arm support divorced from the platter bearing support via suspension cables and bottom magnets.
They are obviously all mad....😱

Halcro
accoustic excitation....
firing sound at the material.
putting the material in an environment where sound is present. 

Ok again for clarity.... 

Under circumstances where we fire sound at a material.....
Are you saying that the material will ONLY vibrate at its resonance frequency, assuming that this frequency is present in the sound?
If any other sound frequency is used there will be NO vibration in the material? This with any energy level in the sound?