A Copernican View of the Turntable System

Hi Henry

I think Jasper being polite as he always is, is telling you to get a new wall shelf :-) One that does not sag.

You can spend those pennies then :-)

cheers

Shane

Dear Henry, Sometimes a thing is "good enough". My LP hardware is in that category. My spare time is limited, and I would rather be listening to some good jazz than fiddling with an armpod. As it is, my amplifier project seems endless, and I am always thinking of ways to improve my pre-amp. Making those slate plinths took a lot out of me, I guess. In short, I will not be making any armpods or modifying any turntables to accept an armpod in the foreseeable future.

Dear Lewm: IMHO: wrong answer: ++++ " and I am always thinking of ways to improve my pre-amp. " +++++

so you want to improve your pre-amp but you are reluctant to improve your TT/tonearm.

With all respect that makes no sense: especially that every single non-plint and stand alone tonearm pod advocate here and in other threads already shared their experiences and in no single one of those experiences exist any single word against but only full quality performance level improvements !!!!!!!

Regards and enjoy the music,
Raul.

Dear Halcro: +++++ " Finally, I can't help but feel that all this talk of 'distortions'.....by you Raul and also by Jonathan.....without a single example .... " ++++++

Henry, you can read my answers on that subject in several threads ( in the MM/MI one you and me disagree and discussed on this distortion subject about the Signet's ( the average ones. ) and FR cartridges/tonearm. ), please don't push me to go in deep again ( I always made my job with questions/answers so please make yours: investigating. )in your thread in reference with your system and what you are hearing and why. Henry I knew extremely well your system or at least better that what you think I know. I know ( first hand. )very well your amps, phonolinepreamp, speaker caps, subwoofers, your cartridges, TTs and tonearms, Scanspeak drivers, cables and even your tape-deck.

IMHO and due to my experiences with those audio items I can say that I have a good idea of what you are hearing, why and what kind of distortions you like.

Regards and enjoy the music,
Raul.

Hi Shane,

I think Jasper being polite as he always is, is telling you to get a new wall shelf :-) One that does not sag.

Unfortunately, physics and gravity are phenomena we just have to live with :^)
I had toyed with the idea of a Micro Seiki SX5000 or 8000........but could imagine the sounds of steel screws popping from their masonry wall plugs :^(
Fortunately.....sagging does not have an audible effect. And the coins have been replaced by hard resin footers.
How is your P3 sounding? You know that the veneered plinth is just 'decoration'? It can easily be removed. I've also wondered how it would sound with the removal of those 'feedback-prone' springs?
I suspect it would rival the best :^)
Cheers
Henry