Turntable support

Turntable support is critical, and the better the support gets, the more air around the instruments one can hear. Why do I choose to check this criteria first? Because I believe air around the instruments is the sum of all the things that can go well/wrong, when I hear vinyl replay. More air around the instruments can be hard to get,  since it  is the sum of :

lower noise floor, lower distortion, better tracking, better timing, lack of vibrations, less surface noise, and longer decay, among other things.

Therefore, if one get less air it means something went wrong. Obviously, a good turntable support just make it a lot easier to hear changes in the system, and after spending years trying pretty much everything I could think of, wood, marble, cork, rubber puck, I finally got a noticeable improvement with my last experimentation which seems to perform better when various element are made to work together.  I’d say that the decisive step was a tubular metal structure I found in a flea market.  Next, was the very dense and incredibly beautiful butcher block  (wood) that I bought while visiting a local cabinet-maker (David Beauchamp). The tubular structure with on top the butcher block, separated with 3 rubber pucks fixated to 3 adjustable metal cones  underneath my chunky piece of  marble has given me the most neutral platform I have ever tried. Easy to verify, since as soon as the needle went on the record I heard more “air”!

That support is here to stay.

Adios all!