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    Default Carbon Fibre Composite cartridge spacer/isolator

    Just started making the above, anyone had experience of any cartridge spacer or isolator ?

    I am making this mainly because with the Akito tonearm there are limited cartridge options due to the proximity of tonearm pins to cartridge pins, making fitting and alignment impossible.

    I will post photographs when completed.

    I have seen Cartridge Man isolator, but it's crazily expensive, and it's shape wouldn't help me.

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    I use an Audio Silente high density graphite spacer, available on eBay.
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    Quote Originally Posted by CageyH View Post
    I use an Audio Silente high density graphite spacer, available on eBay.
    Thanks, I've searched for this with no result, do you have a link?

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    Only 2 left on eBay...
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    I wasn't aware that Graphite posessed any damping properties. That's what they claim.
    It is impossible for anything digital to sound analogue, because it isn't analogue!

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    Hmm. Graphite is dense and hard. It would be interesting to know how a material with no resilience or internal losses 'damps'. It will add mass, but that is not the same thing.
    It is impossible for anything digital to sound analogue, because it isn't analogue!

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    Quote Originally Posted by walpurgis View Post
    Hmm. Graphite is dense and hard. It would be interesting to know how a material with no resilience or internal losses 'damps'. It will add mass, but that is not the same thing.
    That's why I am trying a CF composite that composes of two CF sheets with a foam centre, currently weighs in at 2 grms.

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    I made a solid CF spacer for a friend a few years ago. In general I wouldn't recommend spacers though.
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