A Copernican View of the Turntable System

Nice work Banquo,
An Audio Copernican's best friend is a good machinist :^)
Hopefully you will report back with further observations when you have listened to more of your favourite records?
Cheers
Halcro

Banquo363& Halcro, I noticed that cover on the underside
of the SP 10 is not removed so the AT footers are below
this cover. Is this solution optimal? Ie should this cover
not be removed?

Regards,

Banquo

I found those AT 616 footers give you a lot of flexibility for high your pod can be and they also make fine leveling of the sp10 very easy.

How do you like the freedom you have now to not only use any arm you want but you can pretty much place it anywhere you want on the platform. :^)

Am curious as to what the approximate cost was for the EPA Pod. It is really nice.

Should have my 2nd sp10 up and running within the next couple weeks in the city.

Nikola did you find the room to set up your SP10.

Their footprint is very small with a pod which makes them ideal regarding space.

Cheers Chris

Nandric,
These 'footers' are of course different to my solution with the spikes.
Both Chris and Banquo are using them so they must be fine.
My concern would be if you could lean on the edges of the turntable and induce movement (ie 'rocking')........that would not be a good thing from the Copernican point of view?

Banquo, Good to know that you finally found peace with Bill Thalmann. I don't know how you (and others) are managing to use more than one outboard pod with the SP10. The square escutcheon that surrounds the platter really interdicts the use of more than one tonearm, which must be placed alongside the right-hand edge of the square, which allows a short enough distance to the spindle to permit alignment of a 9- or 10-inch arm. From all other sides, perhaps only a 12-inch arm can be aligned. But obviously you are making it work, somehow. The Denon tt's present no problem in this regard.
Nandric, Removing the bottom of the SP10 chassis would be a big mistake, IMO. It would reduce structural integrity of the whole, leave the on-board electronics open to the elements, and eliminate any way to provide a solid mount for the tt.