Nude Turntable Project

I think the word "hooker" comes from the USA. During the Civil War era, (1860s) there were prostitutes that followed the army of General Hooker, an officer of the Northern cause. Somehow, these ladies came to be known as hookers. I wonder whether General Hooker was ever aware of how his name lives on and why. Thus, if the Arabic countries use the word "hooker", I would be surprised and a little sad.

Halcro, I do not think you would hear any noise from the tt due to the lack OR the presence of an RFI shield. If the outer cage is a shield, it may as well be shielding the neighboring equipment from RFI emanating from the TT101 as vice-versa. RFI going in to the TT electronics from an external source might hypothetically affect function, but there would be no noise per se. I really doubt there is anything to worry about. By the way, based on my sample, dust gets in through the slits in the outer cage anyway; dust accumulation may not be any worse without it.

On the issue of rubber or similar isolators, John Nantais, a well known builder mainly of plinths for Lenco, also eschews the use of any such devices and for the reasons I gave above. On the other hand, he is building huge complex plinths specifically to enhance the performance of an idler, which has problems different to those of a DD table. And your "plinth" is minimalist and for a DD that has especially low amounts of motor energy that needs to be dissipated.

The EMT927 has a huge motor, a heavy platter with a high moment of inertia, and a built-in suspension. How does that work? Is the suspension built so as to resist twisting in the horizontal plane?

Lew, I have no idea if your story is "urban legend" or the real thing, but it was entertaining.

Many years ago I helped a friend and his wife move to Connecticut for grad school at UConn. Driving through Willimantic I was amused to find the Hotel Hooker in the middle of their old downtown. From Wikipedia: "In addition, The Hotel Hooker, once infested with drugs and prostitutes, has been repurposed as a transitional living facility called the Seth Chauncy Hotel."

Aptly named it would seem.

Nice job Halcro. How tight are the threads on those spikes? My experience thinks you need a jam nut and they aren't tight.

A couple of pics first implementation of soon to joining the TT club.

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h69/ecir38/Arm%20Pod/TT71/2.jpg

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h69/ecir38/Arm%20Pod/TT71/1.jpg

if they aren't tight, sorry

I didn’t think I would be writing this review…….
Correction…..I didn’t think I would be writing this review with the following results and conclusions?
In fact it’s hard to tear myself away from the music to devote the time to write this review…..

When I designed the stainless steel cradle for the TT-101 DD turntable…..I never imagined that I would remove the surrounding slotted screen?
Nor did I imagine I would be hearing much difference from the set-up I had been playing over the last 2-3 years? After all….I was simply changing the turntable supporting feet from under the screen, to directly under the top plate which is effectively how all these models of DD turntables were designed to be supported in solid plinths.
I expected to be rather reserved (if not disappointed) in the changes (if any) I would hear?

And perhaps that’s the way it would have played out had I not been forced to remove the outer slotted screen because I had miscalculated by 2 mm the size of the circular cut-out I had designed.

Listening to the new set-up……there was instantly an audible change which confused me somewhat as I couldn’t quite ascertain exactly what it was?
The more I listened….changing back and forth between 3 different arms and cartridges……the more excited I became.
Firstly the silence!
Now the TT-101 was always quiet….at least as quiet as the Raven AC-2……but this new ‘background’ silence was quite unnerving.
There was a ‘depth’ to this silence (if that makes any sense?)….and through the ‘depth’, the ‘newly heard’ projected voices and instruments had body and tangibility.
Secondly the purity!
At every stage of my audio ‘upgrade’ path…….from the Halcro electronics to the Dueland speaker capacitors to the fully differentially balanced amplification operation…..there resulted a greater degree of ‘purity’…….probably best described as a lowering of distortions?
This new set-up lifted the purity to another level.

But the combination of these two improvements rendered a musical presentation so engrossing, so addictive, so transformative….that I broke open the Blue Label and danced a jig.

But how did this happen?
What really changed?
The sonic results I could not reconcile with simply a support change?
And then it struck me!
I grabbed the slotted metal surround screen and held a magnet against it………..
This screen was magnetic steel!
Now I’m not au fait with electro-magnetic theory and practice……but I do know that electrical current, transformers, power supplies and coils can produce magnetism and here was a steel enclosure surrounding this potential magnetism?
If there is indeed a magnetic field being created amongst which are placed hundreds of transistors, resistors, capacitors and copper wiring…..it seems a potential for harm? Almarg…..where are you?

Since I have had my TT-101…..on start-up, very often….the speed readout goes to 33.32 rpm before stabilising at 33.33 rpm after a few seconds. I thought this was normal operation?
Sometimes whilst listening to records…..the sound would ‘wow’ and I would jump up to see the speed read-out at 33.29 rpm or 33.32 rpm before once again stabilising.
Now on start-up…..33.33 rpm is hit straight off and there hasn’t been any speed fluctuations so far.

So my advice to all those with a DD turntable possessing a steel surround…..is please remove it and listen for the differences.
You may well be surprised and delighted?