Nude Turntable Project

Gary, I will chime in here by saying that you need to copy the same material used by Halcro when it comes to armpod. Anything else will just be good but not to the level of sonics performance of that of Halcro. He seemed to me the only person that I know of to have the most correct material.

Audpulse, I do what I can. My cantilevered arm pod looks somewhat like the arm boards on Halcro's Raven. .

I've thought more about taping the pod to the granite slab vs putting it on points. My current thought is that taping it makes it one with the slab from a mass perspective and points will isolate it. I am going to try both but I am betting that the massive approach is preferable - a 40lb arm board seems good to me.

Gary

Ingenious DIY work Aigenga.

I too would like to have Halcro's pod, but if I recall he had a friend do the casting, which casting would have otherwise cost mucho dinero (not to mention the difficulty of locating such a person in the first place). We do what we can.

Don't spikes couple, as opposed to isolate?

I'll be joining the tt101 club very soon. We 3 can compare notes.

Gary, I am not referring to the design but that BRONZE is the best choice for armpod that I am currently aware of.

Aigenga,
Those rubber bands look like a good idea to control any possible audible vibrations of the thin metal enclosure.
Where did you obtain them?
You say you can hear a difference?

I am assuming that before you tried the TT-101 semi-nude and then fully nude........you listened to it coupled to its original wood plinth?
If so.....could you describe what you heard in the moves to a fully nude model as many readers here have commented on the lack of plinth/no plinth comparisons (are you there Lew??)

Returning to your comments on the reduction of 'noise floor'....with which I agree....and the ability to turn up the volume......I do somewhat disagree on your comment about 'poorly recorded' albums sounding worse?
I have found that generally, even the worst recordings seem to be more listenable via the TT-101?