Thank you all for your comments. It's so nice to find like minded individuals that write extremely graphically explicit technically confusing sentences that need to be read a half dozen times!
An interesting side note: I had been using a tweaked out Fisher 800C receiver (1960's top of the line, best all tube receiver ever made) until two days ago, when I subbed a CJ PV-5 tube Preamp into the system (still using the Fishers 32 RMS per amp section.)
The most profound differences were in gain and bass response, which in turn wrecked havoc with my turntable. I had had 2 five-pound lead weights on two corners of the chassis. They were a desirable tweak, until the newfound gain and bass response caused impending subwoofer meltdown. Im sure most of you can imagine the cycle: a little rumble causes unwanted bass response, which causes vibrations, which in turn cause more rumble.
Removing the weights, I experimented with the three different mats and clamping and unclamping, adjusting to produce the loudest bass I could play without overload using B. B. Kings Youre Mean off the Completely Well album. The sorbothane mat with clamp won.
I experimented with cones up, down, rubber, and sorbothane hemispheres in various combinations on my Target turntable rack. The best combination occurred with a Vibrapod shaped piece of rubber (marketed to be used to mount machinery for vibration control) directly on the Target MDF, with a Black Diamond cone pointing upward on top of it, with the Thorens mounted on top of three of those rubber/cone doohickeys. Im not done tweaking (could God build a system so good that even he couldnt tweak it?), but at 106 dB I think the stabilization is mostly taken care of.
With regards to the writer that wrote that the Pod DisClamp should never be used, Im a big guy6-3with big hands. The trick is to support the platter with the fingertips while using the thumbs to engage the clamp. A trip to the hardware store suggested by another writer produced an assortment of washers, including a very flat one just smaller than a record label that I glued some felt to that compensates very well for the otherwise relatively uneven downward force cause by the three prongs of the clamp.
The Cheapskate loved how the 69cent Vibrapod shaped piece of rubber outperformed the $60 Audioquest Sorbothane hemispheres, as well as the assortment of washers I got for 82 cents.
Keep those cards and letters coming,
The CheapSkate
An interesting side note: I had been using a tweaked out Fisher 800C receiver (1960's top of the line, best all tube receiver ever made) until two days ago, when I subbed a CJ PV-5 tube Preamp into the system (still using the Fishers 32 RMS per amp section.)
The most profound differences were in gain and bass response, which in turn wrecked havoc with my turntable. I had had 2 five-pound lead weights on two corners of the chassis. They were a desirable tweak, until the newfound gain and bass response caused impending subwoofer meltdown. Im sure most of you can imagine the cycle: a little rumble causes unwanted bass response, which causes vibrations, which in turn cause more rumble.
Removing the weights, I experimented with the three different mats and clamping and unclamping, adjusting to produce the loudest bass I could play without overload using B. B. Kings Youre Mean off the Completely Well album. The sorbothane mat with clamp won.
I experimented with cones up, down, rubber, and sorbothane hemispheres in various combinations on my Target turntable rack. The best combination occurred with a Vibrapod shaped piece of rubber (marketed to be used to mount machinery for vibration control) directly on the Target MDF, with a Black Diamond cone pointing upward on top of it, with the Thorens mounted on top of three of those rubber/cone doohickeys. Im not done tweaking (could God build a system so good that even he couldnt tweak it?), but at 106 dB I think the stabilization is mostly taken care of.
With regards to the writer that wrote that the Pod DisClamp should never be used, Im a big guy6-3with big hands. The trick is to support the platter with the fingertips while using the thumbs to engage the clamp. A trip to the hardware store suggested by another writer produced an assortment of washers, including a very flat one just smaller than a record label that I glued some felt to that compensates very well for the otherwise relatively uneven downward force cause by the three prongs of the clamp.
The Cheapskate loved how the 69cent Vibrapod shaped piece of rubber outperformed the $60 Audioquest Sorbothane hemispheres, as well as the assortment of washers I got for 82 cents.
Keep those cards and letters coming,
The CheapSkate