Sound Supports (tonearm plates and boards)

[YNWaN]

Hi Mark,

No worries, dude... Nice meeting you again and thanks for having a look at the tonearm for me, even though it was unsuccessful. It's now going back to Denmark. Hopefully, I'll have it back soon (along with my SPU)!

Nice meeting you too - I hope you found your way to the motorway OK? Sorry, I couldn't do much with the tonearm , I suspect Ortofon will end up replacing it.

You have a lovely home, and I enjoyed listening to your system. It does exactly what a Naim/flat earth system says it should do 'on the tin', which is a good thing, and reminds me of some happy times when I was running olive Naim equipment. Your T/T also sounds (and looks) superb, and appears to show little signs of what I dislike about the musical presentation of belt-drive turntables. Vinyl rules!

Wait till you see the bathroom(s)

Glad you enjoyed your listen. Actually, you heard an earlier CF armboard, but I'm changing it back to my composite aluminium one as I miss the greater structure and really overt timing that it offers.

Btw, as Speedy Steve is now going ahead with the ebony wood armboard for my Ortofon, since you're such a dab hand now at fitting and removing Techy armboards (lol! ), would you mind, if I popped round again, fitting it for me when it's ready? That would be much appreciated.

Yep, can do. Actually, I hadn't appreciated what a PITA changing the armboard on the Technics is. If only Technics had provided threaded holes it would have made the job enormously more simple! I guess we will both be waiting on the return of your arm then...

I would also like you to make me an armboard from aluminium, as discussed, when you're able to do so. No rush, but at least now you have all the measurements you need. That way, I can compare the two armboards and decide if I like the effect of wood or metal best

Well, I'm going to look into it. But I only want to design a board if I can bring something new to solving the problem. As discussed, the issue with more complex solutions is price and whether the market can support it - bespoke production of the kind of stuff I do isn't really a viable option (though prototypes will have to be constructed ). But, I'll have a go at producing the CAD drawings from the measurements I took (and the template I made).