Tonearm resonance

No risk except shipping cost to try Funk's Houdini

"Funk says “Decouple”, that's why Houdini was developed! This patented little device blocks those damaging arm vibrations and Immediately your sound improves…a lot! It’s as simple as that."

"Just try it and hear, especially on your modest deck. (You’ll get your money back if you disagree…only, you won’t!)"

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I recall a thread about a thin layer of soft damping material between the head-shell and cartridge that solves/prevents vibration/resonance, some highly recommend it.

I seem to remember it costs a lot less than the funk one you mentioned.

anyone know what is is _______ ?

The OP is asking specifically about that and mentions it by name!

Funk Firm

There’s another by Origin Live called the Enabler IIRC.

anyone know what is is?

noromance, good solution

Origin Cartridge Enabler

they mention other solutions

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Cartridge isolation works

The idea of decoupling the cartridge from the tonearm is not entirely new. The Cartridge Man isolator does this successfully for many arms.

Another alternative promoted by Dynavector importer Pear Audio suggested 3 plastic washers placed between a cartridge body and headshell - this also worked effectively."

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Cartridge Man

the text/his test results are worth reading if considering this

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back to Origin:

The key advantages of the Cartridge floater are:

It sounds brilliant

It’s easy to fit

Low cost at £19 (performance improvement can be valued at over 10 times this figure)

It works with all cartridges (from £35 budget up to £8000 high end cartridges)Provides the ability to slightly adjust azimuth on tonearms which have no such adjustment."

The table came with a full molded carbon fiber tonarm and it's definitely better than the aluminum tube numbers I've had (thorens td325 comes to mind) which sounded like an aluminum tube in the background. This arm is better but it's still transferring background noise through it. I'm reasonably sure that's the culprit. I don't have any illusions of backgrounds as quiet as a digital player at my price point but I would like to get close. Thanks for the input.

It's getting a lot of raves on other forums. I might have to give it a try. If I do I will be sure to report my findings.