A Copernican View of the Turntable System

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...

Sorry,

Just to note that the use of pneumatic footers has its antecedence in the Mitch Cotter approach that found such acclaim decades ago. However, we're adding the potential benefits of the decoupled tonearm - in our current plinth-less and decoupled set ups.

Very little seems new regarding mechanical management (the use of pneumatic footers and magnetic footers aside) but new developments regarding materials (Panzerholz, aluminium/acrylic sandwiches, viscoelastic materials and the like) do offer interesting possibilities to such old discoveries. But I begin to ramble.

As always...