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How can a t/t plinth be "Over-damped"? SP10

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Re: How can a t/t plinth be "Over-damped"? SP10

Postby cafe latte » 14 Dec 2011 22:17

J.D. wrote:What the Mrs suggested is that I dredge shallow "levelling troughs" for the treads to roll down into--- exactly inclined, of course, to assure a dead-perfect level on the armoured turntable mount !

Sometimes the ladies are way out ahead of the curve --- she's hinting that she's buying me a pickaxe for a christmas present already. Or I'm hoping so hard that it seems that way.

There's nice, and then there's really thoughtfully nice.
(And face it, you need a pickaxe to break up the concrete to start your trenches.)

Happy Holidays Optimizers, and remember -- you simply cannot overdamp.
It's impossible.

And all this time I have two dozers outside #-o . A Cat 22 which it 1926 quite cute and a big D7 which is 26 tonnes :D Now were to mount my Technics :lol: :lol:
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Re: How can a t/t plinth be "Over-damped"? SP10

Postby timbloke » 10 Feb 2012 23:30

I've spend many a night dancing to a pair of 1200s/1210s sat on trestle tables that are 5 or 6 feet away from 6k sound systems. if damping was a problem I didn't notice it.
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Re: How can a t/t plinth be "Over-damped"? SP10

Postby Blue Angel » 10 Feb 2012 23:59

timbloke wrote:I've spend many a night dancing to a pair of 1200s/1210s sat on trestle tables that are 5 or 6 feet away from 6k sound systems. if damping was a problem I didn't notice it.


Dampening of a turntable progresses inversely and automatically to dancing and alcohol intake. In other words, the more you drink and the more you dance, the less noticeable dampening becomes until you arrive at a solstice or equilibrium point. This is reached when you and your partner both fall down and the needle skates uncontrollably across the record.

The opposite of the dampening phenomenon occurs when the owner of said turntable and his or her partner cop a bucket of cold water BEFORE commencing dancing and the partaking of alcohol. The latter, in essence - is where dampening or no dampening becomes noticeable and where stuffing of chewed tablets of Stimorol into the plinth becomes necessary.

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Re: How can a t/t plinth be "Over-damped"? SP10

Postby timbloke » 11 Feb 2012 01:10

Can you use Stella as a damping fluid? There's a man on ebay selling plastic bags of golden coloured fluid in bags with inkjet labels marked 'special acoustically null liquid formula'.
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