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In Reply to: Heavy, dude! posted by Munkie_NL on May 10, 2007 at 11:14:42:
Hi Freek.
Thanks for those kind comments, as always.
Slate, as a turntable support material, is getting some notice these days, and rightfully so. A rigid, densely layered mass that doesn't ring. An optimal plinth material. The problem with it is that it's not an ideal "diy" type of material,.The slate quarries use --huge-- industrial-strength circular saws with diamond inserts to cut their product into manageable chunks. The internal contours were then cut via cnc water-jet based on a cad file that I provided to the water-jet guys. Hiring that kind of work isn't cheap. I can't reveal costs but as you can imagine they are "industrial-strength" too. More about that later.
However the results are really impressive.
Of course, the deck was brought back into a state of mechanical integrity before any of this plinth-listening business started. With it standing on the old weathered Thorens rubber mushrooms in its plywood box plinth the deck was also quiet enough for serious listening. It's like I really had to listen for any background noise in order to discover it....and it was faint even then. Now in the slate, it's quiet as any TT I've had.
At this point I have the Teres sidelined against an adjacent wall in the listening room It looks lonely.
-Steve
btw, you're right. The torture never stops... ;-)
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- Re: Heavy, dude! - user510 11:54:25 05/10/07 (1)
- Re: Heavy, dude! - Munkie_NL 06:57:41 05/11/07 (0)
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