TONEARM DAMPING : DAMPED OR NOT ? ? USELESS ? ? WELCOMED ? ?
For the highly-motivated: In the 90’s Townshend Audio offered for sale separately their Damping Trough, for installation and use on non-Rock tables. The DT Kit included the Trough, mounting plates (two, of differing dimensions) and hardware, a small bottle of damping fluid, and the requisite headshell-mounted plate and "paddle" (the little hollow aluminum tube that is mounted onto the headhsell plate and descends into the fluid). I’ve never seen one for sale on the second-hand market, but ya never know. Mine will be, but not until after I die. My ancestors (on both sides) lived relatively-long lives (into their 90’s), so don’t hold yer breathe ;-) . While I’m here, let me make something clear (if it isn’t already): The Townshend Audio Rock Turntable Damping system is not a "tonearm damper"; it addresses the issue of the tonearm/cartridge resonance that is inherent in the LP phono system, REGARDLESS of the specific arm and cartridge. For the complete story, read the Dinsdale papers (see above post), written after the research conducted at the Cranfield Technical College in England was completed. |
Dear @dover : "
Tonearm damping is a bandaid for poorly designed arms or turntables and/or mismatched arm/cartridge. " A bandaid?, well all after market devices as: protractors, mats, tip toes, still points, clamps, treatment, amp damping, TT damping, system item racks, power conditioners, power cables, etc, etc, according your point are bandaids for audio items poorly designed ones. Well, in audio does not exist any single audio item and after market devices that are PERFECT and that's why everywhere we need " bandaids ". All what you said already posted other audiophiles and through the thread to all of them were proved that they had a misunderstood about and that were not true their opinions and that damping is always welcomed, obviously you share with them the same misunderstood. Here some links that between other gentlemans @antinn shared with us that one way or the other tell us the damping needs no matter what. Obviously the @lohanimal links and posts as the bdp24 and from other gentlemans: https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Audio/Archive-Audio/70s/Audio-1979-03.pdf ( page 33 ) http://www.laudioexperience.fr/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Bruel-Kjaer-Audible-Effects-of-Mechanical-... https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Audio/Archive-Audio/80s/Audio-1981-03.pdf ( page 21. ) https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Audio/Archive-Audio/80s/Audio-1982-06.pdf ( page 24. ) https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/tonearm-damping-damped-or-not-useless-welcomed/post?postid=20... After read all those information and even the whole thread if you insist in your false statement then please share with us your true. Regards and enjoy the MUSUIC NOT DISTORTIONS, R. |
Dover is perfectly correct. Most of the stuffs Raul just mentioned are also band aides for poor design. Which means by this definition most turntables are poorly designed requiring numerous band aides. Some turntables like Technics Direct Drive and virtually all VPI table are so bad there are not enough band aides in the world to save them:-) This is the reason many of us are drifting toward digital program sources. How are you going to put a damping trough on a DAC. |
