A 60 year old turntable design is still going strong!

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MC - you are saying just use a record weight correct?

First I said:

Let me share just one thing, one tiny little thing: the record weight. First, it isn’t a weight. Barely 2oz, if that. It doesn’t weight, or clamp. It isn’t even one solid piece. It moves around and feels like several pieces. It doesn’t contact the spindle. It touches the record at only a small triangular area near the center. Compared to my carbon fiber clamp that securely flattens the record to the platter it looks and feels like a joke. But the sound is so much better it is hard to believe! Attack is faster, decay and detail more resolving, tone and timbre a lot more lifelike, on and on.

And then I said:

I would not worry about holding records down. My Origin Live Gravity One record "weight" disabused me of all that in no time flat.

From all that to, "just use a record weight correct?"    

If you want to simplify, "Just use the Origin Live Gravity One." Which I clearly said, "isn’t a weight."

....and to think that ✨My First Turntable✨ was the one I shoulda' kept. :)

Don't remember the initial cart....perhaps a Stanton 681E at the end, since I still have the 'cute' little metal tin the hardware came in...*S* 

Clamp vs. a weight, tho'....Dust bug, lifter...the trifles of the time...

Thank you MillerCarbon.
I stand (well, sit) corrected. 

I'll look this gizmo, up but it must be a damper?  Clearly it does address my concerns about adding weight on a suspended turntable.  Funny that they use gravity int he name but its not a weight....:-)

Hah! I feel better now. From the first review i could find (have not yet foudn the origin live site....hmm):

quote:

"Before we get to the thing itself, let me tell you what this product is not. 

It’s not a Weight. It’s not a Record Weight. It’s not a stabiliser. It’s not a clamp.

Even Origin Live calls this thing a Record Weight. It isn’t."

Right. That's why I said it isn't a weight, and put scare quotes around "weight". Technically it is a weight. It has mass. Or it would float away. But only a little. So not a weight. Not in the normal sense everyone means.  

Origin Live https://www.originlive.com/ has a number of interesting products besides turntables and tone arms. https://www.originlive.com/hi-fi-accessories/  

Technically the Gravity One is a damper. But to call it that is only about as accurate as to call it a record weight.   

As Mark Baker told me, the key to both the platter mat and the Gravity One is to achieve a balance between holding the record firmly and at the same time allowing vibrations to flow into the mat and weight. Even more  important and even harder to achieve is to have this happen uniformly across the frequency band.     
So the Gravity One is a complex design. It feels funny in your hand. It looks normal, but look underneath- https://www.originlive.com/hi-fi/turntable-upgrades-modification/turntable-record-weight-best/ That is NOT normal! Impossible to tell from the pictures but those pieces are not rigidly attached. The three rings are not rigidly coupled but move slightly. The hole in the center is quite a bit larger than a spindle. It is designed to help center but to be uncoupled from the spindle.   

Another interesting feature, the Gravity One touches the record only at a small triangular area near the center. This review has some of the best images. Scroll down to check out the side view showing how little area touches the record. https://www.originlive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Paul-Rigby-Record-Weight-Review-2020.pdf 

I used the Gravity One on my Teres Miller Carbon table before setting up the Sovereign. I have tried a lot of other record clamps and weights. The comments in this review are right on. The Gravity one is on another plane.