A Copernican View of the Turntable System

Thx for the responses - I use three as well - spiked mapleshade spikes and am very happy with them. Will look out for the 616's to try out when they come up for sale.

@Ct0517: the guy I bought my AT 616 from is selling the smaller AT 636 right now. May be worth getting if you don't want to wait for the others to show up.

Halcro,

I'm having difficulties with the spiked stand-alone arm column. In my system, it definitely increases the bottom end and lower midrange but I feel it does so excessively. The cost of these elevations seem to be a loss of air/acoustic layering and refinement. However, they gave greater impact on certain percussive instuments and so I need to find a middle ground.

I'm still playing with this and will try a mix of the spikes and blue tac approaches to see if I can tune in the necessary accuracy in tone and staging.

The fun continues...

Dgob, Do you have your arm pod on the spikes and your tt on AT feet? If so....

Dgob, any resonance in the arm tower will be a coloration. If the feet prevent the tower from coupling to the base of the platter bearing, that too will be a coloration.