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Thorens TD-124 DD 140th Anniversary Addition
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<blockquote data-quote="dan duette" data-source="post: 1159844" data-attributes="member: 15299"><p>This is not a new thing. As per your post the combination of metals are meant to damp resonances for starters. The weight also adds to centrifugal effect that helps speed stability they say. There are commercially available copper and gunmetal mats and these have been around for a while, just google it. Some of the high-end Micro Seiki's had bare metal platters with vacuums to hold records flat against the metal. Some comments were that they can sound a bit 'bright', others reckoned that adding a weight/clamp resolved that. Holding a record with your finger tips and placing it on the platter as you normally do should be as safe as putting the record on an Achromat, also a hard surface. As long as the surface is clean...</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]33792[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dan duette, post: 1159844, member: 15299"] This is not a new thing. As per your post the combination of metals are meant to damp resonances for starters. The weight also adds to centrifugal effect that helps speed stability they say. There are commercially available copper and gunmetal mats and these have been around for a while, just google it. Some of the high-end Micro Seiki's had bare metal platters with vacuums to hold records flat against the metal. Some comments were that they can sound a bit 'bright', others reckoned that adding a weight/clamp resolved that. Holding a record with your finger tips and placing it on the platter as you normally do should be as safe as putting the record on an Achromat, also a hard surface. As long as the surface is clean... [ATTACH type="full" alt="P1010797.thumb.JPG.1865e034592ea8186960d532a0add130.jpeg"]33792[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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