Dear T_bone, you know I like to look at TT and tonearm questions from the physical and geometrical point of view first.
Well - even if you use say 30 adapters with a step of 0.1mm each in compensated eccentricity, it will still be a fairly easy, cost-effective and very precise solve to the problem. We have 2 fixed points here - the spindle hole in the LP and the spindle of the TT.
To compensate the given eccentricity we have 3 options:
a) compensate at the platter itself and leave spindle and center hole alone = Nakamichi's approach (the whole platter compensates the eccentricity of the LP...... I see it working and I do not have a sense of "good solution" - the sound isn't anything to write home about either...)
b) widen the center hole to compensate eccentricity at the problems core itself - the LP (= modification of teh LP's spindle hole making it hard if not impossible to play the LP on any other turntable.. and results in a huge decrease in value. Certainly not the way to go for a collector of highly priced vintage vinyl..).
c) decrease spindle diameter to compensate eccentricity at the spindle. Solving the problem again at the very core of the problem. Modification can be done to almost any TT.
What I can say is that the method I described works very good in everyday handling.
You make a note for any specific eccentric LP and have an adapter with the specific compensation at hand in a few seconds.
There is no free lunch here.
Honestly - I can not see any other option aside from the 3 mentioned above.Do you have any idea?
Anyone else?
Well - even if you use say 30 adapters with a step of 0.1mm each in compensated eccentricity, it will still be a fairly easy, cost-effective and very precise solve to the problem. We have 2 fixed points here - the spindle hole in the LP and the spindle of the TT.
To compensate the given eccentricity we have 3 options:
a) compensate at the platter itself and leave spindle and center hole alone = Nakamichi's approach (the whole platter compensates the eccentricity of the LP...... I see it working and I do not have a sense of "good solution" - the sound isn't anything to write home about either...)
b) widen the center hole to compensate eccentricity at the problems core itself - the LP (= modification of teh LP's spindle hole making it hard if not impossible to play the LP on any other turntable.. and results in a huge decrease in value. Certainly not the way to go for a collector of highly priced vintage vinyl..).
c) decrease spindle diameter to compensate eccentricity at the spindle. Solving the problem again at the very core of the problem. Modification can be done to almost any TT.
What I can say is that the method I described works very good in everyday handling.
You make a note for any specific eccentric LP and have an adapter with the specific compensation at hand in a few seconds.
There is no free lunch here.
Honestly - I can not see any other option aside from the 3 mentioned above.Do you have any idea?
Anyone else?