New Teres Direct Drive Motor Available as Option

Did you try a plain old brick or rock or piece of slate as a control for the benefits of the Shakti stone?

The Verus arrived here yesterday. Setup was straightforward and operation is simple. Spinup and spindown times are quite reasonable. I do need to retrain myself to not give the platter a push to get things going - caught my hand a couple times just before. :-)

Basically just checked that all was in order and operational. The primary issue for me was the size of the motor controller box and where to put it. The motor pod is sitting on the same 3" maple block as the turntable. Lightly holding the motor as it drives the platter I do feel the traversal of the wheel against the platter as not 100% smooth/continuous. I may need to fiddle with motor position a touch.

Listening at the end of a long evening, I'm gonna recheck my impressions tonight. TT is a Teres 320 which has a 37 pound platter. Ergo, my expectations are more oriented toward improvements coming from an improved motor than from increased rotational stability. Will report back.

Do folks have observations on the sonic character of different Verus torque settings?

Tim

Lew, yeah - and that reduces the noise below threshold, but I sensed the Shakti added something in addition to plain ol damping - but I'm not a big believer in audiovoodoo until I can do a control and the difference is significant, sustainable and definable. Of course different does not always mean better or preferable, and I think these things have to prove over a period time.

The best application of Shakti stones for me has always been on CDP's (cleaning up digital haze) and power amp transformers/poer supplies, but not so much if the amp has a seperate power supply and umbilical.

Steve

I think I remember that the Shakti stone does have the property of soaking up some of the stray fields radiated by transformers, over and above the fact that mass loading the tranny helps to reduce vibration. I also think I read that any old out of use transformer, if placed atop a functional transformer, will have some of the same positive effects, but I've never tried that, nor have I used Shakti stones. From the hayday of audiovoodoo, promoted often innocently by HP, the Shakti stone hangs around. I don't dispute that it may do some good, I just am interested in the why of it.

Lew, while browsing one of my father's old EE textbooks from the early 50s, I read that a block of iron placed on top of a transformer improves coupling between the magnetic fields. This is how how a VPI brick is constructed. I don't know about the Skakti stones.