A 60 year old turntable design is still going strong!

....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.

Well I just must weigh in here.  Chakster has it right, the AR turntable was a terrible design.  Specifically the problem was the arm.  It had too much friction.  Cartridges and records wore unevenly because of this problem.  I was in the business for most of the decade of the 1970s and looked at literally hundreds of these using Wild-Heerbrugg M5 microscopes (I still own one) to examine the stylli, an O-scope, usually a McIntosh, and test records to optimize set up etc.  Stylii invariably wore unevenly on AR turntables.  The arm was the problem, the rest of the AR turntable was excellent.  Thorens was the first to come up with a better solution with their TD-150 and later the even better TD-125.  Many other companies also came up with better players.  The better changers of the era from Dual and Miracord also outperformed the AR at least in the arm department.  Again, to repeat, I looked at hundreds of these things over a decade, using the best available microscope and excellent test equipment.  This is not onesy-twosey anecdotal testimony.  If you think otherwise you are living in a dream world.