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Michell Gyro SE...Light or Heavy style Clamp??


Just wondering which clamp you cats are using with your Michell Gyro TT. I am considering getting a heavy weight clamp for mine. Is this a BAD idea?

With the Michell designed clamp, you must stop the TT to flip the record...which is a P-I-T-A!

Any other record clamp recommendations? Thanks a bunch!
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aroc
760 posts
 
I would use the lightweigth Michell clamp and just stop the platter. It's just a single button. BTW, would removing the record when the platter is scuffing increase the chances of scuffing or otherwise damaging the record? What a P-I-T-A that must be to risk that. :-)
the_smokester
174 posts
 
The first time the record slipped and the spinning platter tossed it into the tone arm was the last time I changed a record without turning the TT off.
dougdeacon
3,338 posts
 
As a rule, suspended tables take lightweight clamps because a heavy clamp would throw the suspension off.

The reason to use a heavy clamp (on an appropriate table) is not to change sides without stopping the platter. It's for superior vinyl/platter coupling and resonance control.

If you insist on the obviously risky practice of changing sides with a spinning platter, get a clampless table with a soft matt, like an LP12 or something. I still wouldn't do it myself. The_smokester's scenario is too scary and I'm a klutz, but YMMV.
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