Is the KAB Fluid Damper worth it if...

Might be a silly question but does the dampen help lower the noise floor on this tt because i like the sound of the tt but the noise floor even with a nice benz micro ace is too high for this analog newbie but grizzled digital vet!

Thanks

Michael

" noise floor is too high for this analog newbie but grizzled digital vet!"

Damper might help.. but unless your cleaning and treating with good wet/vac solutions on your vinyl media it will never improve to that extent, clean and it will.

Just installed my TD1200 last week to my SL-1210M5G with a Goldring g1042 cart on stock headshell. I had the tt a couple of months with out the damper so I had plenty of time to listen without it. I had lots of fun with the table. many positives and there are some areas that are not great. Take the new album ON Rainbow by Radiohead, the music seemed to come from different palces in the soundstage but never got back together to make music- the damper brought it all together and just seemed to make it sound more like a live performance would. It had made that difference on several different albums that I have listened to. Some, though, didn't sound any different at all, or very little. On my better pressings it did make a nice improvement and the Goldring cart seems to have some pretty nice range to really dig out the info in a groove. The Gring 1042 is at an awkward price point at around $400- but it is an incredible cart with this table. Lush comes to mind as I can't seen to get enough s of it. I just crossed the 50 hour mark and it continues to impress.

Is the tonearm dampen something a newbie can install? One that is not mr diy?

Michael

Ps sure wish the technics 1210M5g could use any phono cable you want because the attached one looks cheap! Yeah perhaps can ship to kab but thats a pain! Anyone change out the phono cable?

The TD-1200 Tonearm Dampening System is easy to install, the trickiest part is removing the tiny screw on the tonearm of the MG5. I stripped it, so I had to get a Dremel tool to cut a flat screw slot into the stripped phillips screw head in order to get the screw out.

The phono cable on the MG5 is actually a feature that you paid for in getting the MG5 model. The cable is pretty darn good. You are much better off addressing other issues on the turntable first before to approach the actual phono cable. IMHO

The external power supply and tonearm dampening system are two big areas of improvement.