A Copernican View of the Turntable System

Henry, Agreed. Dissimilar materials. Spikes only work as diodes if one takes care to place them over vibrational nodes in the shelf material. These can be identified by tapping the shelf whilst moving a stethoscope bell across it so as to find places where the tapping sound is least well transmitted, i.e., a node, a point where the shelf is not in motion. I have done this, and it's really quite obvious when you have found the sweet spot. Otherwise, spikes will move energy in both directions albeit with different efficiency depending upon direction.

Lew, I'm looking at the the V2D series ball contact, have not purchase them yet. Open the pdf and eBay listing to get a better look. Their description is contradicting in some areas to me so a call to them will be done before purchasing. I like the concept and the price isn't out the box.

Brad

Dear Thuchan: Useles to continue arguing with you on a subject that you just don't understand or you don't want it.

Last: where goes all that MS rotational energy with its generated vibrations/distortions? where to hide? under platform underneath? where and how?

When you have the precise answers to those questions then you not only could understand where are you seated right now but you will have the opportunity to look how to attain a real improvement on what you have today.

Enough.

Regards and enjoy the music,
R.

Dear Dover: I agree with you and about your Final TT I posted somewhere how the designer was so advanced on the PS design that even today many TT can't approach it.

What you said about that Sota TT mods that does not likes to some audiophiles is one of the main PROBLEMS in audio: almost no one likes accuracy/neutrality, what we like because some way or the other we are accustom to are distortions different kind of distortions and when we heard audio items with a good neutrality level we just don't like it: like Thuchan with the SME 30.

I'm supporting neutrality in this forum for the last 3-4 years and other than Syntax almost no one want to speaks about: they prefer to " go on " when IMHO the CANCER on our hobby are: DISTORTIONS/COLORATIONS and the like that came in different kind and ways and for different reasons but IMHO this Cancer has a cure a solution and this cure/solution is to look for accuracy/neutrality avoiding all kind of distortions in any single link in the audio system chain.

We have to learn how we can achieve that level of accuracy and neutrality with out lose the MUSIC emotion/feelings.
I'm in the road and still far away to achieve the target but day by day learning I'm nearest to that target.

That's why I take the job to build my phonolinepream, my tonearm and in the near future a cartridge and a TT. Why took I this kind of job?: because almost no audio device manufacturer took/take it.

I don't have any commercial targets my only one target and compromise is to honor MUSIC at home and we can't do it adding distortions and unaccuracies elsewhere the audio systems.

Regards and enjoy the music,
R.

Dear Lewm: Layering different materials does not means disappear and does not means even that goes lower but only different kind of vibrations/energy or frequency resonances. Yes you understand very well my point.

The Thuchan dialogue came in that tone because he is posting things I did not said and maybe because or I can't explain very clear my opinion or he understand nothing about.In his last post IMHO he shows that he are not understanding or are not reading the main subjects.

I think that when two people have different knowledge level on a subject these kind of discussion/misunderstood happen always. I can't remember when was the last time that I discuss with you in a " hot " manner.

Anyway, all these is part of the " fun/floklore ".

Regards and enjoy the music,
R.