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Springs under turntable

I picked up a set of springs for $35 on Amazon. I intended to use them under a preamp but one thing led to another and I tried them under the turntable. Now, this is no mean feat. It’s a Garrard 401 in a 60pound 50mm slate plinth. The spring device is interesting. It’s sold under the Nobsound brand and is made up of two 45mm wide solid billets of aluminum endcaps with recesses to fit up to seven small springs. It’s very well made. You can add or remove springs depending on the weight distribution. I had to do this with a level and it only took a few minutes. They look good. I did not fit them for floor isolation as I have concrete. I played a few tracks before fitting, and played the same tracks after fitting. Improvement in bass definition, speed, air, inner detail, more space around instruments, nicer timbre and color. Pleasant surprise for little money.
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cleeds
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mijostyn
Cleeds, yes I read tea leaves but most importantly systems like mine are obviously very rare at this point ...
I'm not sure your system is that rare - I've seen lots of systems like yours that included the flapping woofers that you think is inherent to LP playback. But if you're happy with your system, that's all that counts.
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uberwaltz
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Just to be fair to equalisation control here, our sadly departed Al was a proponent of the same and used some form of DBX control and he was very satisfied with it.
I do not remember the exact details of what he used but he did post about it numerous times.
So I would never say never and write it off entirely, just that at this time it is not something I will be pursuing.
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mijostyn
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You see cleeds, you have no idea either. Of course I am assuming wrongly or rightly, that all of you know what you are listening to. And cleeds, if there is no music by subwoofer cones are frozen dead.

Uberwaltz, if you could hear a proper system it would be the first thing you would be pursuing. 

Radomir Bozevic was a genius. His problem and downfall was that he thought everyone else was up to his level of thinking. He direct marketed his equipment, his instruction manuals were awful and he was not able to provide adequate phone in support although he tried. The TacT 2.2x and it's theater version he TCS remain the most powerful DSP preamplifiers on the market. The only units that are close are those made by Trinnov.
Companies like Anthem and DEQX make units that are relatively easy to use but not near as powerful. They are however very useful in mid Fi situations. In Top systems only TacT and Trinnov need apply at least for the time being. I will take photos of the program in operation to try and give everyone an idea of what is going on. 
lewm
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Mijo, Re your response to Indra, how would you delivered energy to the equipment on an isolation device such that you could then “count” it’s resulting oscillations? Seems to me you’d want to replicate the natural state where hitting the TT with a hammer is irrelevant.
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uberwaltz
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Uberwaltz, if you could hear a proper system it would be the first thing you would be pursuing.
Mijo
That is right where you lose my attention.
The implications of that statement are that neither myself or anybody else here has a "proper system".
And to put it bluntly, I find that insulting and degrading.

Have a nice day.
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