Anyone still using a Teres table?

I built my first Teres, #13, back when it was a DIY project. That Teres now resides in Sweden with the daughter of the good friend it was sold to some years ago.

My second and current Teres I built right at the close of the Teres DIY era as the project was being taken private by Chris Brady, and Thom Mackris spun off and formed Galibier. It has a 3" clear plinth to complement the 3" thick clear lead-loaded platter as well as a clear cantilevered arm platform. Visually it is very striking and it sounded great from first play.

Over the years I’ve added parts courtesy of Harry Weisfeld so that today my Teres sports a VPI two-motor flywheel rim drive controlled by an SDS, VPI periphery and center clamps, and a VPI JMW 12.5 arm with a Dynavector XV-1S. I also added industrial air-bladder suspension and an intermediary layer of sorbothane pucks as additional vibration damping. Each of these additions improved the already excellent performance of the original Teres, and I think it is still competitive with current turntables. But I might be prejudiced as one of the original Teres DIY design team.

Thanks for an evocative thread. Some very good memories and an awful lot of great music has been played by that ’table over the years.

Steve Z

Hi Steve!

It's been a while!  Feel free to give me a call sometime (# on the website).  I'd love to catch up.

Much of the back story has been lost over the years, but Steve was a key contributor as one of the original "Teres-5".

Cheers,
Thom @ Galibier Design

My Teres 255 emits a clic each revolution. I guess is apparent in quiet music or music where a black background is obvious. It's frustrating.   The motor has been fixed and upgraded, it's the  tape belt tape type Signature 3 I believe. The bearing was polished in other words Teres took care of it but I hear this noise. What can it be?

Alanpiga,
You may want take a look underneath the platter to see if anything is hitting the strobe sensor. Same thing was happening to me and it was just a little debris stuck to the strobe disc. Good luck.

Are you sure it's not the belt itself? When I had the signature motor I'd sometimes get a click when the belt seam passed the motor pulley. It was because of slight seperation of the belt from the adhesive tape holding the belt together. For a test, make a belt from a thread or waxed dental floss. You may just need to make a new belt.