A Copernican View of the Turntable System

Dear Chris, As I wrote I was not sure about the 'under cover' of the SP-10 and consequently the footers. This also imply of course the hight of my Reed armpod. I also
asked help and advice from Lew and he recommended the Boston platter mat or the SAEC one but also worned reg.their weight. My armpod is 10cm high with +/- 1cm adjustable spikes. I sleep well btw but my conscience started asking some tedious questions about the sense of such 'abundance' of carts and TT's. I hate the greedy characters so this kind of reflection is unavoidable.

Halcro, never heard the expression 'asparagus' and was not
able to find in my dictionary. Never thought that your eloquence will become a problem. Do you mean the vegetables?

Regards,

Dear T_bone,
Because there already is a 'Professor' in our midsts (Timeltel of Kentucky).......the only post left open for you is 'Honorary Dean of the Faculty' :^)

Yes Nicola.......asparagus....the vegetables.
As in ASPARAGUS

Henry - I agree a universal one will be tough to do with all the dimensions. Larry at TT weights is making a good effort at it as Brad said. Others will follow. Henry your armpods look more expensive than the price you mentioned.

Nikola - you have two adjustables factors being the armpod itself and your arm. A third could be the sp10 footers. Your armpod is roughtly the same height as mine which is 4.2 inches tall. That means you will require taller footers based on an sp10. I cant recall how high the 616's are - maybe if Banquo sees this he can comment on their height. I think about 2.5 - 3 inches. I would not let that stop you.

I would get some small blocks of wood or other material and with some blue tac put two just inside the front corners and one in the middle of the contour toward the back - see my system page. Find any decent table to put it all on temporarily - you will still hear the magic. The sp10 mkII has no detectable rumble and requires little to work well. They used to plunk these things down on radio station tables everywhere. They are self contained as you can see and bullet proof.

I am still up north in Gods Country going after the elusive record small mouth bass will be returning in a couple of days and can provide more info.

Cheers

hi guys, it's been a few months. lot's has changed. i have installed a new rack for my system and, the reason for the post, i have made a new armpod.
i am having another stainless pod being made, but my machinist buddy is very busy. so, i decided to make on using panzerholtz. you can see a pic on my virtual system, on the micro seiki rx1500.
sonically, the armpod is doing what is expected. i have great isolation of course, which improves greatly on the image, detail, focus and bass response. the only issue that i have with it is the weight. it is on the light side, compared to stainless or brass. it can move relatively easily. so when i adjust the tracking force, for instance, i have to be carefull not to re-locate the pod when i'm adjusting the counterweight on the arm.
otherwise, i'd recommend using panzerholtz. it can be turned on a wood lathe without special tooling. i do have a small metal lathe that i used, but for the average guy, it id workable.