Sorry Halcro, you fail to understand that both can be true.Duuuh.....🤪
You surely don't imagine for a second @dover that I could be advocating for an armboard to be 'moving' in relation to the platter....?
As you rightly surmise....
Dohmann claims to provide BOTH isolation AND positional stability.But what he emphasises is the importance of 'isolating' the tonearm from the both the BEARING and MOTOR.
As @lewm states above...
A very heavy outboard arm pod that sits on the same support structure as the plinth itself is probably an acceptable compromise as far as coupling.What irks me mostly is the declaration of FAKE facts....
Here is the engineering principle that MUST be observed when designing a plinth for a turntable:Such dogma is anathema to our intriguing and not fully-understood hobby....🤗
The plinth must be as rigid and as acoustically dead (damped) as possible. The mounting of the platter bearing in the plinth will be thus coupled as rigidly as possible to the mounting of the tonearm.