Best TT plinth material, cost no object

Hey Lewm,

There is a very nice cutaway of the Kenwood table at: http://www.thevintageknob.org/KENWOOD/L07D/L07D.html

dave

Thorens has made the Thorens Concrete, made of... you guessed it, concrete.

I guess that pretty much cements Thorens place in history.

ken
Don't you just hate that:^) people who falsely advertise a product. There were so many different platter designs for the various maplenoll table. My first one (white ariadne reference) had a 30 lb platter that had been dropped and bunged up. I personally leveled and reformed that one to the point it worked pretty well. When I purchased my second maplenoll (ariadne signature), it came with the large platter that once again had been damaged. I took it to a machine shop and he leveled, and balanced the platter. It was approx 85/90 before leveling. the final weight is 82lb. The apollo table i recently purchased is a little lighter and designed a little different since it has a vacuum system as part of the platter.

Oilmanmojo,,

Hi to Mr Mojo.

I've been stung twice on Maplenoll tables.

A few years ago a friend of mine in the UK, who has saved me many dollars on a number of tone arms and other gear, found an Ariadine on Audiogon for $2,500. It was listed as domestic sale only, 9 / 10 condition with factory shipping crates but pick up desired. I fronted the cash and drove from Richmond to Pa. to pick it up. The arm was bent due to a baseball glove having been dropped on it and there were no crates. I lugged the table , with the 50 lb platter, back home and built a fantastic crate for it. It took a full sheet of 3/4 inch plywood, $100 of ethafoam, and a day to build it. Fed Ex got it there for $450 including duty.

The seller was an FM finatic so I took along a Wiengard 12 element yagi, one of two I bought and never used, I gave it to him gratis, that was before I saw the damaged table and no crates.

James loved the table and reciprocated, in spades, the next time I needed another tone arm.

Giving negative feedback to an Audiogon member that never had, or probably never will, sell anything again is no consolation for getting a raw deal. God will get him for that!

Ken

Raul,

Being able to enlist the facilities and expertise of those in the scientific community is something that happens because of luck or money, maybe both.

There are a few tables that have been designed by those that have both, and more, of the above attributes. Forsell, Continuum, Grand Prix, and maybe Larry Denham at TTWeights. I'm sure I've missed a few.

However, for those of us clearly outside the league of the pros, we have access to the most cost effective brain trust in the business; Audiogon. The amount of information available on this web site is free and comes from many that have listened, fiddled, modified, evaluated and fiddled again. One has only to read the many threads and make an educated guess as to what path to follow. You gamble your bucks and report the results. If you don't lie about what you hear, it might help another member in his quest for something a little bit better. After all, don't we all think we have something to contribute that will make things sound a little bit better? If we try and it doesn't work, what can we always do, LIE!

Ken