A Copernican View of the Turntable System

T_bone,

Excellent and do let me know how it goes if you do try it.

Dgob, all elastomerics have a range of operation- a minimum loading and a maximum. Depending on where you get the elastomerics you can often get a datasheet that can be very helpful in this regard.

However, I did increase the weight of the armtower to over 6kg and this brought no major improvements - save stabilizing the imaging.

In my book, stabilizing the imaging is a major improvement! One of the weaknesses many 'tables have relative to analog tape is image stability. I really could not get my 'table to do that as well as tape until I installed the solid plinth (damping the original plinth, which was hollow-cast, was not enough!).

Atmasphere,

You're right, the spikes and resultant image stabilization was a major improvement. What I should have said was that it did not bring performance back to where I had it when only using blue tac and not using the Symposium. The combination of spikes and the removed viscoelastic platform has brought major improvements in this regard but I still need to test for any trade-offs and ensure where (if anywhere) weaknesses might now lie.

Onwards and upwards

'viscoelastic platform'?? What's *that*?

Dear Dgob/all: Theory/theorethical is only that: theory/theorethical and IMHO means almost nothing till you can prove exactly what that theory states.

All the persons's experiments/facts posted in this thread means that for each one of them what all they are hearing it is a great quality performance improvement that permited to all of them enjoy MUSIC as never before.

Good for all, congratulations!!!

Regards and enjoy the music,
Raul.