Does the magnetic levitating platter make all other designs superfluous.No bearings!

There is no balm in Gilead. A perfect isoaltion methodology or technique actually doesn’t exist. The negative stiffness, the mag lev, the mass on spring, the air bearing, they all have their Achilles heel (s). And they tend to allow the lowest frequencies up into the thing being isolated. That’s precisely why the LIGO project to detect gravity waves took so long to develop a proper isolation system. But it doesn’t mean you don’t try.

brucegel OP
145 posts
10-14-2016 2:23pm
Geoffkait is correct.But this may be a hurdle less high to jump than previous designs.The question is how serious are they in perfecting this concept.Do they have the engineering chops to do it right.

audiophiles have had mag lev devices for twenty years. It’s not really a question of engineering chops. It’s that mag lev has insurmountable problems that makes it uncompetitive with better approaches. LIGO does not use mag lev for any of it’s isolation stages. And they know their isolation. Therefore, I’m out. Looking on the positive side, magnetic sensors are used effectively for active isolation servo mechanisms.

brucegel OP
144 posts
10-14-2016 2:16pm
Wait till you see the whites of its eyes or the levitation of the platter yourself.Oh and I almost forgot...listen to how it sounds.

Compared to what?