Teres, redpoint or galibier turntable

Dear Stltrains: I totally understand your point and you already know what I'm talking about and the importance on the subject: you expierence it when you change and up-grade your phono stage and when you change your tonearm, I'm not saying nothing different it is only that IMHO you still can do more through the tonearm/cartridge link or phonolinepreamp that with your TT " road ", that's all.

Anyway, you will make what you think is better for you and the important opinion about it is not the mine but yours because is you who have to live with the audio system everyday, specially on week ends!!!

I like the audio forums ( specially the Agon one ) because all them give us the opportunity to think on subjects that for one reason or another never we imagine that were important, those audio forums help me too to confirm my findings/set-up and to analyze my system from a different point of view and all these facts is what permit that every one of us can/could grow-up on our beloved music " hobby ".

Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.

Thom you have a business to run. and i dont think me are any one else here on the gon will hold you responsible for how you have to run Galibier to make a profit.

I was going through the Moody Blues Catalogue tonight and in between A Question of Balance and Every Good Boy i made the bad decision to check this darn thread and well bummer.

For what its worth to me I dont need Charity and if you took it that way sorry. Haven't got any yet. And dont need any. I have a good job that pays very well.

Maybe i am reading to much into your post, as i have had a very long day as well. Vertical transportation is a demanding job.

And, there's no noise at all from the tape drive transmitted through the platter.

Perhaps that is the case, but I've certainly heard a tape splice go round the pulley. I don't have an engineering background - how would that splice 'thump' get transmitted to be audible?

Tim

As Thom says, stainless steel is way up over the past few years and aluminum is following suit - aluminum ingots are up 50% since 2004 and stainless steel is up more than 100%. Kind of surprised by the PVC price jump but small lot buyers can get squeezed by any number of things (example: shipping costs are well over double what they were a couple of years ago).

Thom, non illigitamus carborundum.

Tim, that can happen if the splice is not done correctly. I've heard it myself when a splice began to separate after more than a year of use. When the splice is right there is no thump at all. There is certainly no motor noise transmitted to the platter.

I'm not saying all rim drives are noisy, but that type of drive is susceptible to it even when everything is working as designed.