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Wall mount every time for turntables, for me. I remember the days of flats with dodgy floors ... jump and a skip when you walked across the room.
Tim
Tim
Gosh, Mull; this is a bee in your bonnet. I'm not refuting it, but to be totally accurate it would have to have an apostrophe of omission. Nottm might be painted on roads and signs but doesn't indicate accuracy of abbreviation. Nott'm Analogue would therefore be accurate, though Notts Analogue is clearly not (sorry, 'notts' ).
No MacDonalds there Mull, but soon to be a McDonalds
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-51120076
The Borg assimilation is complete
I’m thinking of buying a Notts Analogue tt as a solution to my ongoing suspended floor issues. Most of my budget will go on the turntable so I would need to pair it with the Ittok on my LP12 at least initially.
Do any fishers have experience of this combination?
I'm seriously considering putting my Orbe on top of a decent rack, such as one of the more recent Atacamas, probably with an isolation shelf of some sort. I've been using a Target type for decades, but I really don't think it makes much difference as I have solid floors in a quiet residential street with no through traffic. In fact, given that the wall in question is load bearing, but only of single breeze block constuction, it could well be less suitable than the floor.
To the OP, Nottingham Analogue decks really do sound fabulous and are immune to a wide variety of external forces
Yep.. that's why I said 'currently'. I think it's a pity as it could open the way for KFC and the rest of the boring purveyors of American style shite.
And of course as well as currently remaining the only county with no MacDonalds.. Rutland has no county town called anything like Rutland.. being ruled from Oakham.
Even sadder was seeing the queues outside McD's in Bangkok when one opened a few years later.
No solid deck without proper suspension will be immune to any external forces!
My advice is to buy a turntable with proper suspension to avoid any acoustic feedback,
Probably got my knickers in a twist here, but I thought the o.p.'s problem/enquiry was re. footfall on a suspended floor. Acoustic feedback is a separate issue. Having said that, I can't see how the format of the deck affects acoustic feedback; isn't this a product of arm and cart ?
It's the same issue Mike. Proper turntable suspension will isolate footfall and acoustic feedback.
No solid deck without proper suspension will be immune to any external forces!
Which turntables address these issues successfully in your opinion?
No deck is totally immune to external forces ! There are different ways to manage energy absorption and travel through structures and each one will have a set of compromises that need to be managed through good design.
Nottingham Analogue decks have a well judged approach to managing this through a careful choice of materials.
Any solid materials used in the manufacture of a turntable will not prevent the transmission of vibration into the design. To reduce this to acceptable levels you need an acoustic filter capable of isolating at frequencies great then 3Hz.
Prevention is a very absolute word in engineering. I make my living in helping to create structures in automotive and Aerospace, most often it is a case of careful management of vibrational energy which can take several different forms. With sound wave pressure via air or physically conducted energy, absorption / isolation strategies such as springs, viscoelastic elastomers, isolating layers, use of vacuums etc - all introduce other compromises.
This is true, but you have to consider the minute movement of the stylus in the groove and the influence ground-borne and seismic activity can have on the cartridge trying to produce a clean signal. Therefore it is so important to try to isolate the turntable from such vibrations. If you look at the video above you will see what I mean. If these vibrations are not isolated from the turntable then distortion will occur as the unwanted vibration will modulate with the signal.