[78-L] Turntable vibration isolation

Malcolm Rockwell malcolm at 78data.com
Tue Aug 3 09:58:13 PDT 2010


Wow! All these great ideas. It must mean we're now all turntable 
placement and isolation engineers (TPI engineers) and should feel free 
to market the ideas to the audiophools and make big bucks in our spare 
time. Good for us!
Mal

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On 8/3/2010 6:46 AM, Royal Pemberton wrote:
> 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:
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>    
>> 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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