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How does wood hardness affect the sound of a TT on a wood TT platform?

I'm interested in purchasing a Butcher Block Acoustic TT platform for my Luxman PD-171A TT. The Maple Block has a Janka Wood Hardness Scale of 1450 while the Walnut is rated at 1010. How does the hardness of wood affect the sound ? Trying to decide which way to go.
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teo_audio
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The most vibrationally sensitive device in the world is suspended on glass strings, so to speak.

Any guesses as to what device it is?
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Teo_Audio

Electron microscope?

Gravitational waves detectors?

nanotube resonator? for measuring down to yoctogram (one septillionth of a gram – 10 to the -24th grams) or the mass of a single proton.

Ok i'm running out of ideas.




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I was just discussing that a couple weeks ago on these fora. Coincidence? 😳
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noromance
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Back from Google. Global earthquake detection. The glass (silica fibers) are 400microns thick so chosen as they are immune to expansion and contraction from temperature changes. This thermal noise would impact negatively on measurements.
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LIGO mirror suspended by glass threads video,

https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/LA/video/ligo20170216v

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