A Copernican View of the Turntable System

Jcarr,
you forgot something: a ladder !

by placing a ladder (which reaches high enough over the shielding) in front of the TT you will be able to climb onto it and maintain the TT from above.

But seriously: air isolation is one of the best measurements if designed and implemented properly.

I am wondering why most people are positioning their TT(s) near one of the sidewalls of their listening room using very long cables and also giving their speaker systems the opportunity shooting into the room free
and fast. Why not designing a LS system and positioning it two meters in front of the rear wall in such a way that most of the waves are not entering the space one meter behind and in between the speakers. reflections should be dispersed by corner, rear wall and ceiling measurements too.

We are always speaking about one unit - a TT or an arm pod. But we never look at the whole system - the listening room.

best & fun only

Dear Dgob, When you say that you found "improved performance" when you mounted your nude SP10 on AT616s, may I correctly assume that you refer for comparison to the same tt when mounted on Symposium products? Or what? Thanks.

Hi Lewm,

Yes, I'm referring to the same tt on the Symposium and other products. For me it was a clear improvement: despite my initial (and over enthusiastically voiced!) suspicions concerning air-borne interference with a pneumatic approach.

Nandric, If one wishes to drive any of the full-range Sound Lab spkrs with a tube amplifier, particularly with an OTL tube amplifier, there is work to be done with the network that feeds the panel. I and others have made some modifications that help a lot. The stock OEM speaker is probably fabulous right out of the box with a first rank solid-state amplifier, but its impedance curve is treacherous for an OTL.

Dear Lewm: Congratulations on your birthday and by those Majestic's.

I know very well the Majestic's ( my friend and tonearm co-designer Guillermo own it. ) and are first rate speakers and as I posted two-three times the Sondlabs are almost the only elostrostatics I can live with.

I agree with Nandric about tube amps and especially OTL's. I heard the Majestic's with several amp options and the manufacturer recommended JC-1's are perhaps the better IMHO and obviously you don't have to " touch " the speakers to match tube units.
You know very well my take on that critical match between output impedance amplifier with the electrical impedance curve in the speakers where low very low output impedance is IMHO a must to have if you want neutral/accurate response.

Anyway, very good move/play.

Regards and enjoy the music,
Raul.