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Psychicanimal,
I'm right with you on complex, full orchestral tuttis for exposing stylus drag. Massed violin tones will expose speed irregularities caused by big percussion hits, brass blasts, etc.

No offense taken that you can't visualize a table like mine or Thom's being thoroughly resistant to stylus drag. No reasonable man would take offense at another man's lack of imagination! <;-)

Gotcha covered. For everything you needed to know about tape splicing, sources for Mylar, etc.

Check my support page at:

http://www.galibierdesign.com/support.html

Cheers,
Thom @ Galibier

Nothing is perfect. Mother Earth, for example has a resonant frequency of about 7.8 Hz if I remember my numbers correctly.

Steel girders are elastic. Tape drive being perfectly rigid? You get the picture ... just a better approximation we all hope.

We're all just about hunting down these demons in ways we consider pracitcal but that others would consider to be madness.

Cheers,
Thom @ Galibier

Thom,
We're definitely on the same page about PRaT, sorta what I tried to say in my post criticizing Art Dudley's infatuation. While PRaT can certainly be masked by a stereo, as 4yanx pointed out, most PRaT-loving reviews I've seen are in fact praising inaccurate tonal balance or inaccurate reproduction of leading or trailing edges of transients. A particular inaccuracy may of course sound "better" on some recordings, but it will be insufferable on most others.

The "perfect" stereo would *exactly* reproduce the tonal balance and transient behavior of the recording, and its noise floor too. A component that fails in one or more of these areas will probably mask some of the musicians' PRaT, but focusing on PRaT is indeed focusing on the result, not the cause.

Enjoy the TriPlanar. Here's a tidbit that's not in the manual: the cueing height adjustment also controls the point across the record where antiskate kicks in. Weird, but easy to understand if you look at it long enough. :-)

Sorry to NGeorge for the endless OT, but it seems like a nice conversation!

7.8Hz? Yikes. No wonder my pet elephant is always nervous. They can hear that low can't they?

Einstein explained our futility 100 years ago. What you see/hear depends on where you stand, and even on whether or not you're looking/listening!