[78-L] Turntable vibration isolation

[Royal Pemberton]

I have a friend who worked for Radio Scotland (the pirate station) back in
the 1960s, and he told me their Garrard turntables were mounted on
gyroscopes to prevent them rocking about when the ship did.

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Dennis Flannigan <dennis.flannigan at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Years ago a friend lived on a houseboat. Slap, slap, slap went the waves,
> and bump bump bump went the record on the turntable. He was an audiophile
> technician, and after some thought, carefully hung the player from the
> ceiling on four wires. Only then did all his recordings really swing, and
> played fine to boot. Don't know if there's a solution here, but a thought.
>
> df
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