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If willing to dig around a bit, try the Teres Audio and Galibier websites

The Teres Project emails are an educational read about the efforts of a group of people trying to build a better turntable, questioning the design parameters of every part of a TT. There is some talk of platter materials, including acrylic, to my knowledge.

At some point in the past, the Galibier website (www.galibierdesign.com) has had a lot of information/commentary about different materials used for platters and there was a page (I do not know if it is still there) which showed the evolution of platter materials and developments to improve the platter to remove sonic signature.

A simple read-through of past history of the two designs shows that the two companies both started out of the Teres Project in some way, and one or both started with solid acrylic, but Teres has looked for more mass and more damping and also moved to wood as a material, and Galibier moved away from acrylic quite early and has constantly tried to improve platter design and materials/combinations since.

While I have not owned an acrylic platter table, my conclusion would be that straight acrylic block platters have a sonic signature by itself that was, in the end, unacceptable.

In any case, the history of these two turntable companies (including their common history) and their explorations of materials subsequently makes for interesting reading.


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