I would have thought that anything coupling the spindle/bearing/motor to the actual record can only induce more noise and vibration somewhat defeating the objective?
I get the idea of applying some damping to the record surface (rather than flattening it as tonearms are probably designed to track reasonable record unevenness) but shouldn't any gadget doing so be completely disconnected from the spindle?
If so wouldn't something like a puck of sorbotheane or similar with enough clearance to the spindle do a better job than clamps and weights?
I get the idea of applying some damping to the record surface (rather than flattening it as tonearms are probably designed to track reasonable record unevenness) but shouldn't any gadget doing so be completely disconnected from the spindle?
If so wouldn't something like a puck of sorbotheane or similar with enough clearance to the spindle do a better job than clamps and weights?