Dust cover up or down?

HI

As with most things in life the answer is……it depends! I have a VPI HW 40 with a dust cover and it works and sounds the same with the cover up or off. If you want that extra bit of assurance that the dust cover won’t negatively impact the sound, you could attach a piece of bubble wrap on the underside of the cover and away you go. My VPI HW 40 is used with a Kisiki Purpleheart and Sutherland phone stage.

Cheers

Jerry 

Keep dust cover down if you like bad sound and STATIC.

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Clearthinker, I think you ought to add a denominator to your survey. “How many have measured VTF with the dust cover up vs down, and did you detect a difference?”

so far, 2 maybe 3 contributors here have both done the comparison and did detect evidence of an effect.