The worst tweak I tried this week

[teledynepost]

Plastic bubbles and bicycle tubes are very elastic/bouncy, sounds like a terrible idea.

[Resident Loser]

Plastic bubbles and bicycle tubes are very elastic/bouncy, sounds like a terrible idea.

...tweeky stuff...is it bouncy or does it decouple? Should you use concrete blocks, balsa or bubinga, sand-bags or foam rubber, brass cones or sorbothane...What? Use a cable cooker on cryogenically-treated cable?

IMNSHO, the only component that needs any special care is a TT...as the electromechanical interface provided by the record surface/cart, can, will and does have an effect on the sound...

CD players mistrack and Pfffttt...no sound...PERIOD! Buffers hold info hopefully until the bump-in-the-road goes bye-bye and the error-correction, in the guise of CIRC, corrects for corrupted data...not synergistically radiated RFI feedback, not heavy footfalls, not nuffin'...

You would think all these equipment designers don't have a clue in how to make their medium work properly...like the green marker/ granite-plinth crowd does?

jimHJJ(...to paraphrase the immortal words of mtry...it's all hoo-doo about voo-doo...)

[jrhymeammo]

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IMNSHO, the only component that needs any special care is a TT...as the electromechanical interface provided by the record surface/cart, can, will and does have an effect on the sound...

Very true. This may be the first time I ever agreed with you.

But!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


I do have 16" x 16" x 6" slab of concrete under my TT and brass screws/hockey pucks. This works, it really does.I really havent experienced considerbly noticable improvement under any digital devices though.

Hey GatorZap, are you serious about the towel? I'm confused. Guess only one way to findout, Sh$t, now I gotta do laundry.......

[FLZapped]

Hey GatorZap, are you serious about the towel? I'm confused. Guess only one way to findout, Sh$t, now I gotta do laundry.......

Erm....guess that means me. And yes, the idea is to reduce transmitted vibrations. The towel will convert the vibrations into heat a they try to traverse the layers.

No, you won't burn anything up, there is WAY too little energy being dissipated to even notice a temperature increase of any kind.

However, others are right, if you've actually got vibration problems with your CD player, there is either something amiss in the CD player, or it is resting on a vibration table.