LP eccentricity, spindle hole center,The fix??????


Hi all,

I'm one of those audiophiles, 67 years of age, that wonders about the effect of the accuracy of the center hole. Some of the LPs I put on the TT have play due to a center hole that's punched out of round, too large or what ever.

I'm playing a record on a Denon 308 direct drive table using a system devised by a LJT Mfg in Canada to reduce eccentricity and help flatten warped records using a peripheral ring clamp in conjunction with a 1420 gram spindle clamp. The trio comes along with a cnc machined polycarbonate centering disc that straddles the record after the clamp ring is set registering on the outside diameter of the record. I can feel play regarding the center hole as I implement the OD centering device. I'll measure it tomorrow, just a few thousandths. The music sounds fine to my ears but I wonder what the relationship is to the record grooves, the outside diameter, and the center hole.

A while back a TT was made that had an extra arm that MEASURED THE ECCENTRICITY of the record and re centered the disc for play, it sells for big bucks if you can find one.

FINALLY, Your thoughts on the question?

regards, Ken Fritz
kftool
Dear raul, I don't know whether the old Microgroove Longplaying Record standards can be found anywhere on the web (but I believe so). I have them in the old printed papers of AE Anthology and Wireless World.
Dertonarm: Ok, good that you are of that kind of people that like " live its life " ( make things happen. ) and not only see how its life goes through.

Please email me to start about. All of you auio and music lovers friends ( elsewhere you are ) are invited too.

Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.
Dear Raul, dear all, - I think the best way to start would be a foundation here on Audiogon. A kind of "Audiogon quality record collectors society" (...which is just meant as an analoghy - not my propolsal for a name for this group or society...).

It was Raul's idea and I believe Raul should start and name this.
However I think if we can relate this in any way to Audiogon it will be a much wider public and therefor much more (positive) power.
That way it would be more promissing - the chance to get really some influence on the LP-manufacturers and distributors.
Dear friends: I already email Dertonarm on the subject to start about and we come back to you in a dedicated thread to share and take ideas from all of you.
In the mid-time you can email us with your thougths and ideas on the whole subject, I mean any subject.

Rgeards and enjoy the music.
Raul.