Originally Posted by
nickbaba
I very much doubt whether I personally would reach the point of being able to hear the effect of airborne feedback in my system!
I would be shocked if you did not, I remember in the old days remembering a certain turntable manufacturer commenting one could hear the different sizes of springs in a turntable suspension and one sure can.
I have learnt everything makes a different I have wested a small fortune all hiden from her in doors of course learning the hard way. With a garrard and any non sprung turntable, I would take extra care as possible to get it isolated. Even My micro seiki 8000 with its air suspension, air bearing and massive platter that by most peoples standards sounds much much much better with the Minus K, Herzan and Vibraplane plaforms and even then I can hear what different types of feet add to the party the quest goes on and on. Imagine even the type of material used for a arm board makes a difference brass has its sound, as does steel or aluminium as does different woods etc and each work different with different arms everything makes a difference we might prefer one against the other thats a different story. A great deal of turntable designers choose not to suspend there turntables mainly because of cost restraints and complexity there have been extreme products like the Continuum and Rockports and Micro Seikis and a few others that have adapted industrial isolation solutions to get take it to the highest levels but at crazy prices.
If I were buying a deck especially spending £3000 plus spending £700 on a townshend platform is a good buy considering the improvements. A friend of mine just purchased a platform for his £30000 systemdek reference and commented how big the difference is and the systemdek has an excellent suspension that really works.
Last edited by Vrajbasi; 07-10-2018 at 23:18.
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