[78-L] Turntable vibration isolation

[Michael Biel]

  On 8/3/2010 11:56 AM, Dennis Flannigan 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.   df

Several years ago Dennis Rooney gave an ARSC talk about the Pickering 
tone arm which was designed in the early 50s for use on board ships.  It 
was an plain and ugly looking device which had only a lateral movement 
at the pivot but mounted the cartridge in a device that lowered it to 
the record and damped its vertical movement.  He feels it is the finest 
sounding tone arm ever made, and the most stable.

It is about half way down this page on a Garrard 301 on a red colored 
base playing a red Fantasy LP.
http://members.myactv.net/~je2a3/friends.htm
A later version with a counterweight that allowed a shorter back end, 
the 190D, is pictured here.
http://itishifi.blogspot.com/2009/08/1955-popular-electronics-choosing-hi-fi.html

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com