A 60 year old turntable design is still going strong!

MC - you are saying just use a record weight correct?  Yes that's one way to hold them down. Keep in mind that with suspended tables (old school) a lot of weight becomes both a load and balancing issue though.
This is an AR thread after all :-)

Watch this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rgK0YMsJXM

The AR XA was a landmark design. It was the first isolated turntable, it was belt drive and it instantly antiquated most turntables. You could not use it commercially but audiophiles do not slip que records. It was built to be as inexpensive as possible so it has no creature comforts but thousands of growing audiophiles could own one and enjoy a level of performance totally unique at that time. It was like the VW Bug for audiophiles. The Bug was a superb winter performer (compared to other cars of the day)  if you put snow tires on it you could drive through anything. People who live South would not realize this. Up here everyone my age has bug stories. A friend in collage had a purple Bug. We went to Montreal to see Elton John. Coming back at the border I guess the guard smelled marihuana. He got us out of the car and planted us on the curb while we watched them take the bug apart. They took the air cleaner off!
In the mean wall us long haired collage geniuses knew there was not so much as a seed in the car. We cleaned it out and smoked everything we had on the way up and at the concert. I tapped on one of the guards and quietly told him he was really wasting his time. That made a big difference of course but, I really did not want them to be disappointed that they did not find anything. 

"so called high end" was the high point of Edward's comments for me.

itsjustme-

MC - you are saying just use a record weight correct?

First I said:

Let me share just one thing, one tiny little thing: the record weight. First, it isn’t a weight. Barely 2oz, if that. It doesn’t weight, or clamp. It isn’t even one solid piece. It moves around and feels like several pieces. It doesn’t contact the spindle. It touches the record at only a small triangular area near the center. Compared to my carbon fiber clamp that securely flattens the record to the platter it looks and feels like a joke. But the sound is so much better it is hard to believe! Attack is faster, decay and detail more resolving, tone and timbre a lot more lifelike, on and on.

And then I said:

I would not worry about holding records down. My Origin Live Gravity One record "weight" disabused me of all that in no time flat.

From all that to, "just use a record weight correct?"    

If you want to simplify, "Just use the Origin Live Gravity One." Which I clearly said, "isn’t a weight."