A Copernican View of the Turntable System

Nikola - if I was in your position with a tuned up virgin Sp10mkii in my house and that Reed armpod and tonearm already in place I would not be able sleep until I put them on a small temporary stand with appropriate height footers under the sp10 just to hear what it was like.

Chris, Nandric and Brad are quite correct in this thread being primarily about isolated arm-pods, their cost and availability.
The 'Nude Turntable Project' thread combines the support of the nude table together with the design and fabrication of bespoke arm-pods.
Corby's solution to an adjustable-height arm-pod attracted my attention as perhaps a pointer to a 'universal' isolated arm-pod?

It is not realistic IMO, to expect the individual turntable manufacturers to design and sell 'universal' arm-pods? Depending on the design of the various turntables available, such a design could be more complex and expensive than a pod designed for a known individual turntable design.
That's why this exchange of differing solutions is valuable.
I designed my arm-pods to accept every arm I was aware of yet the pods were designed height-wise, to be specific to the Victor nude DD/TT although height variations up to +/- 10mm is possible via the height of spikes selected and the thickness of the aluminium top-plate to the arm-pods themselves.
In this case the cost of each pod worked out to approx $500 and would now be $300 for each additional one (since I have the casting mould).
It is hard to imagine a 'universal', height-adjustable, any-arm-you-like commercial arm-pod being available for a retail price anywhere near that?

Hi Brad - yes the idlers need the plinth to damp the rumble and the inquiries were for armpods going around existing TT's with plinths. A few talked about slate plinths that could be cut smaller to allow for multiple arms. I was planning on doing a plinth for an L75 platter/motor/top plate only with armpods.

Don may see this but I will reach out to him to see if he can provide more info.

Cheers Chris

Dear Nicola and Chris,
I have found that a tin of asparagus can form the ideal height for the temporary mounting of an arm :^)

Halcro,
Just because you asked... ...there is a back story...
JVC/Victor of Japan was originally owned by Victor (US).

Victor was formed when Emile Berliner (inventor of the gramophone and then first owner of The Gramophone Company) lost a suit brought by Columbia and Zonophone early on, and wasn't allowed to make records anymore. The guy (Mr. Johnson) who was making gramophones (I think on an OEM basis) for Gramophone Company filed suit to allow him to sell the gramophones he had made, he was victorious in court, and he named his company Victor Talking Machine Company. That company partnered up with the original British Gramophone Company to sell gramophones, and the British company found the painting, got it changed slightly (from wax cylinders to discs). EB asked the original artist to grant the US picture rights to VTMC. That was 1901. As a result, they also got some other jurisdiction rights by default it appears. A few years later, VTMC started exporting equipment to Japan. In the 20s, after the great Kanto Earthquake destroyed most of Tokyo (1923), Japan raised import taxes dramatically, causing VTMC to decide to set up a local manufacturing and sales company, called 日本ビクター (Japan Victor). Then RCA took over Victor TMC in 1929 and RCA's corporate philosophy was to run overseas businesses on a RCA-local JV basis, so they JVed with Tokyo Electric (at the time a company in the Mitsui keiretsu, but better known now under a different name, created when it merged with Shibaura Electric Mfg - Toshiba). When relations between Japan and the USA got worse in the late 30s (as Japan was embarking on its Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere efforts), RCA no longer wanted to be involved with a Japanese JV so sold the rest of Japan Victor to its JV partners. After the war, during which Toshiba and Victor had both suffered greatly (in the bombing of Tokyo and 'burbs), but had significant debt remaining, and GHQ decided that banks couldn't own big parts of companies anymore, both Victor and Toshiba needed new partners. RCA raised its hand, but so did a long-time fan of talking machines, records, and the "HMV logo", the president of Matsushita. He decided he wanted to be in the record-making business and put up a boatload of money to buy out the debts of Victor from banks. Later Matsushita Konosuke would actually be chairman of Victor. In any case.... in Japan, most people referred to the company as "Victor" rather than "Japan Victor" and the brand used in Japan was, in the 60s-80s, "Victor". When Victor started selling VHS machines globally in the early 80s, they used the "JVC" brand outside of Japan. Later, "JVC" as a brand was re-imported and all the Victor-brand A/V products made by the Japanese company were branded JVC. And that's all she wrote... Back to armpods!