A Copernican View of the Turntable System

Dear Nandric,
I'm certainly not angry with you :-)
A little disappointed that you didn't understand my sense of humour about your 'Australia' remark which I found very funny :-)........so I thought you took offence?
I hope we're 'cool'?
Regards
Henry

High Density & CLARITY are BFF

Dear Geoch - thank you so much for your thoughts. You are absolutely correct - I can eliminate that wood layer totally and mount the ET directly to the armpod with the one bolt. The mounting post rides on air with 3 of its own couplers. The plate I am using is dried oak and it is firmly held on with 2 - 1" inch machine screws. I used the plate to allow for ease of changing arms but I will be making other pods for those arms so it is not required. Now the important part - how much will it change the sound by removing it.
I will think more about the second part. The adjustable AT616 footers are at their lowest point right now and they adjust much higher to accommodate a higher pod. My problem is at the pod side – I will need a taller one.
So for the interim I think I will replace the AT616’s with the lower mapleshade spikes I was using previously – this will give me the room to experiment with the pod and that layer.

Henry – My VPI 12 arm mounts directly on top – with phono cables out the side. It is very easy to drill a hole into the armpod to accommodate the bottom cables especially if aluminum. But it still won’t look as good as yours. Our imagination is the only limit here. Many ways to skin.

Dear Halcro, I am truly glad to hear this;we are cool now.
But your arm pod remind me somehow about Picasso. 'Look',
he said to a friend, 'how easy drawing is'. He then draw with a single stroke a pigeon. 'Anyone should be able to do this'. He added. Now an arm pod is of course a'different
animal' but do you really think that we can make the same as yours? If so I don't believe that I am able to understand anything about Australians. Except of course that they must be onbelievable optimistic kind of the human kind.

Regards,

Regards,

Dear Chris, It will change for sure, but you need an intermediate level of different material in order to break up the resonances. If I was in your position, I would start with a 7mm Brass top plate for armboard, and Steel for the discs under the spikes. By this way you have the Goldmund's list & sequence of metals. I'm not supporting their option, but you may want to try something that is so much praised by them.
Kind Regards