Plumber's Mait

[simonbrown]

Made the mod suggested in this link yesterday http://www.tnt-audio.com/clinica/td125tweaks.html with Plumber's Mait (non-setting sanitaryware putty). Surprisingly effective on my TD125 mk1, and music was very enjoyable last night and today ! I haven't used anything like the quantity shown, but it still seems to work very well. Recommended, though if you don't like it you had best make sure you have a roll of kitchen towel and a bottle of meths to hand.

Anyone tried something like this on a Linn ?

Simon

 

[Hazelberry]

No, but it's an acknowledged tweak for pressed steel speaker baskets, too.

 

[zarniwoop]

I wouldn't. Unless you distribute the mass symmetrically to a high degree of accuracy you could get precession, which will damage the bearing and, I expect, sound bad. Think how an unevenly loaded washing machine jumps about.

 

[flatpopely]

I wouldn't. Unless you distribute the mass symmetrically to a high degree of accuracy you could get precession, which will damage the bearing and, I expect, sound bad. Think how an unevenly loaded washing machine jumps about.

Turntables tend not to do to hundreds of RPM!

 

[zarniwoop]

Turntables tend not to do to hundreds of RPM!

The principle still applies. Naturally I wouldn't expect an unbalanced platter to cause the deck to jump around the room.

 

[DSJR]

No, but it causes the sub chassis to oscillate slightly once per revolution. Many LP12's do this, especially early ones.

 

[flatpopely]

No, but it causes the sub chassis to oscillate slightly once per revolution. Many LP12's do this, especially early ones.

And new ones