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In Reply to: Turntable design & audio snobbery - What is a turntable supposed to DO? posted by soundnut on September 7, 2006 at 17:53:18:
"So - what is the function of a turntable? Not the arm or cartridge, but the turntable itself? I would say it is to spin the record at a constant speed & keep the record free from undue vibration or noise generated by the room or the motor. If a turntable does these things, then I would say it's achieved it's goal."....Snobbery? Nonsense.
Actually, you missed the most significant role of the turntable. That is to provide a stable and tuneful environment to fix the tonearm/cartridge system to. You can't separate these components from each other. They need to work as a system and together they provide the "voice" of the final product.If the plinth is made of materials that are not music-friendly (some would say that certain acrylics, lead and other metals, and Corian would fit in that category) or if it is unstable, not level, etc. it doesn't matter if you are using a $10,000 tonearm/cartridge combo. It's still going to sound like crap. Very expensive crap!
Since you have these three turntables, go ahead and rotate a single tonearm/cartridge combo to all three. I guarantee that with at least one of the turntables, you are going to say to yourself, "Gee this cartridge sounds like crap."
The cartridge is always the first piece to get blamed, but it's usually just a really bad resulting resonance between the various pieces that make up the turntable system.An analogy would be like putting Michelin racing tires on a pickup truck. They may be the best handling tire on the market, but they would not automatically make that pickup truck handle like a sports car.
Close to the Edge, down by the river....
-Ray
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Follow Ups
- That deaf, dumb, and Blind Boy sure plays a mean pinball!! - Ray-o-Stat 20:14:53 09/07/06 (7)
- You said basically the same thing I said - soundnut 04:43:42 09/08/06 (0)
- Re: That deaf, dumb, and Blind Boy sure plays a mean pinball!! - mosin 21:05:04 09/07/06 (2)
- newby struggling along - OMalley 05:27:33 09/08/06 (1)
- Re: newby struggling along - Ray-o-Stat 07:21:17 09/08/06 (0)
- Or 265/70R17 light truck traction tires on a Maserati MC12. nm - tketcham 20:43:26 09/07/06 (2)
- Actually, those tires may "successfully" make a Maserati drive like a truck :) /mt\ - Ray-o-Stat 20:47:44 09/07/06 (1)
- Until it high-centered on the first tall waterbar. '-) nm - tketcham 21:10:28 09/07/06 (0)
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