A Copernican View of the Turntable System

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.

How cool is this thread??

Lewm,

Yes. I'm using this as an exercise in decoupling and I've now gone back to using a combination of viscoelastic sheeting, blue tac and spikes under the arm column. Early days but so far, so good...