A Copernican View of the Turntable System

"Hank" is an apparently American nickname for someone whose given name is "Henry". Thus, the famous baseball player, Henry Aaron, is better known as "Hank Aaron". Now you mention your unfamiliarity with "Hank", I am not sure that they use it as a nickname in Oz, either. By the way, there is nothing pejorative about it. Henry/Hank is probably off somewhere with a pint of Foster's, ever since Adam Scott won the Masters. One of my Australian friends emailed to me that he was in tears over this victory, the first for an Aussie.

Correct Lew, my father's name was Henry and everyone called him Hank.

Hi Dgob,
Unfortunately your Link does not lead to the page you suggest?
Are you able to re-load?

'Hank' is purely an American epithet for 'Henry'.
Whilst I would have preferred it whilst growing up.......in Australia, it simply doesn't exist.
Although we do have a certain eccentricity in knowing the famous actor Tom Henrys who appeared in Sleepless in Seattle?

Hi Halcro,

I don't understand why it wont load. However, if you google Audio Qualia you can find the relevant plinth related sections. I've also found some use in 'The Practising Scientist's Handbook', written and compiled by Alfred J. Moses (Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York, 1978) as cited at http://www.soundfountain.com/amb/sp10plinth.html.

Some explorers tend to emphasise that plinths were seen as a 'necessity' in order to keep the motor and innards of old TT's in place: as well as offering aesthetic advantages. With many of our models and concerns, this is obviously not a requirement and this (along with my own extending listening to a decoupled, plinth-less set up) leads me to suspect that the pneumatic footers and stand-alone arm tower for the Technics SP10 might be the optimum option - from a performance point of view. Anyway, I will give the plinth option my best efforts in order to adequately clarify the/any performance differences.

As always...