Excellent turntables with threaded spindles ?

Opus88,

IME a center weight or clamp won't do much for a bad pinch warp. Dish warps can often be flattened, even when playing the concave side, but pinch warps require a vacuum platter or periphery ring.

In truth, if one's arm and cartridge are reasonably good trackers, warp-flattening is not the main reason to use a hold-down device. The main benefit of weights, clamps, periphery rings and (I suspect) vacuum hold-down is to provide evacuation paths for and dampening of intra-vinyl resonances.

The drop in noise floor and improved low level detail and clarity from weights, clamps and rings is much more audible than any flattening of the record - at least IME.

Add the Kuzma Stabi to those tables with threaded clamps.

Edle, if your theory of vibration transmission with threaded clamps is true (and it may be per Dougdeacon's observation), why would it not also apply to clamps which grip the spindle in some fashion to secure hold down? To be effective on a smooth spindle, this must be a tight grip and that would still promote transmission if I have any understanding of physics. The only way around this would be a heavy weight which would not need a tight coupling, and that might introduce micro chatter.

Yes, the theory will apply to your mentioned method too. I used to have a light weight Michell LP clamp...I used it a few times and sold it. It was not worth my time.

Music Hall MMF 7 comes with one from the factory, also a really excellent table for very resonable cost, you can find many favorable reviews on it.

Doug: Your observation on the Teres clamp and its application sounds encouraging. I am interested also in how effective The Galibier Anvil is in providing positive results regarding the turntable/record synergy. Can anyone out there offer any helpful comments on this ?