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I redid the plinth on my VPI Scout for 2 reasons:
1. The black finish MDF was boring.
2. I was always curious if a hardwood base would provide a more "lively" sound vs MDF.
Bought a couple slabs of American Walnut at Woodworkers warehouse and joined them with dowels after cutting and matching the grain as best I could. Did a spray lacquer finish and put all the metal work back on.
Listening tests have been quite interesting. The midrange definitely seems brighter with vocals (both male and female) moving forward a bit with added clarity. Not sure, but the bass seems a little subdued, but only on certain tracks. This may be due to the fact that I couldn't get the steel plate off the original plinth, it appears to be glued on. This easily accounts for half the weight of the original platter and no doubt stiffens it quite a bit. I'll either pry it off or fab a new one to do a proper comparison.
In the mean time, I had the local granite house start on making one out of rock. Weight and rigidity should be better than the original by many times. Hope to have that one for listening tests by next week.
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Topic - VPI Scout Plinth Redux - Lakeshore Larry 14:28:55 10/12/14 (35)
- RE: VPI Scout Plinth Redux - Lakeshore Larry 18:02:39 10/29/14 (2)
- RE: VPI Scout Plinth Redux - Bones13 04:00:29 10/30/14 (1)
- RE: VPI Scout Plinth Redux - Lakeshore Larry 04:55:17 10/30/14 (0)
- RE: VPI Scout Plinth Redux - Waxxy 10:36:21 10/13/14 (3)
- RE: VPI Scout Plinth Redux - Cygnus X1 11:01:06 06/29/16 (0)
- RE: VPI Scout Plinth Redux - Lakeshore Larry 10:40:45 10/13/14 (1)
- RE: VPI Scout Plinth Redux - Waxxy 17:42:28 10/14/14 (0)
- Try Corian next - BobM 10:23:41 10/13/14 (1)
- Countertop Corian - Penguin 05:42:05 10/14/14 (0)
- RE: VPI Scout Plinth Redux - middleground 03:34:12 10/13/14 (0)
- Don't mar the original plinth just yet... - genungo 22:04:04 10/12/14 (0)
- Metal plate - BPoletti 19:52:51 10/12/14 (8)
- OK OK OK - Penguin 19:55:10 10/12/14 (7)
- RE: OK OK OK - BPoletti 20:10:44 10/12/14 (4)
- hmmm - Penguin 20:19:48 10/12/14 (3)
- RE: hmmm - bjh 21:55:45 10/12/14 (2)
- glad to keep things in perspective :) - Penguin 07:02:01 10/13/14 (1)
- Weight!!! )MT( - J. S. Bach 07:54:12 10/13/14 (0)
- RE: Dresden suffered less violence than what you propose! nt - amioutaline? 19:59:19 10/12/14 (1)
- Yeah :) - Penguin 20:21:17 10/12/14 (0)
- RE: VPI Scout Plinth Redux - dirtyvinyl 17:20:30 10/12/14 (0)
- RE: VPI Scout Plinth Redux - shallow pockets 16:49:18 10/12/14 (0)
- RE: VPI Scout Plinth Redux - painter27 16:26:34 10/12/14 (8)
- You're nuts. That's better. - MannyE 19:43:07 10/12/14 (3)
- NVTS ???? - Penguin 19:52:11 10/12/14 (2)
- RE: NVTS ???? - MannyE 20:02:00 10/12/14 (0)
- RE: A Classic! nt - amioutaline? 19:55:31 10/12/14 (0)
- let me get this straight :) - Penguin 17:41:55 10/12/14 (3)
- RE: let me get this straight :) - painter27 18:39:36 10/12/14 (2)
- How thick is the steel plate? - Penguin 16:05:12 10/12/14 (0)
- go to the - unclestu 15:43:11 10/12/14 (0)
- RE: VPI Scout Plinth Redux - amioutaline? 15:26:08 10/12/14 (0)
- RE: VPI Scout Plinth Redux - BPoletti 14:41:45 10/12/14 (0)
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