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Post Subject: Very ImpressivePosted by Antonio J. on: 2/11/2006
Dear Romy, thanks for your comment. I actually don't want the mat to do "something" for me sonically, but to teach me how far I'm I of my ideal. Knowing your goals and taking for granted that the 8000's platter must be rather dead sonically, I assume those mats must be quite dead also. The purpose to use some sonically dead mat is to learn if the platter I'm using now is as dead as I'm supposing (it's quite high mass at 20Kg and the surface is a carbon composite layer weighing about 5Kg). I don't use any clamp (it doesn't work as good as clamps worked on the old TT) and the plynth is not suspended. The "a priori" approach is that a dead mat would eliminate or at least "damp" some sound from the platter, but as you point, maybe the platter has some kind of sound that helps in the results I'd like to get, so in my context, it would be better not to use any mat. I'll have to check it.
I hope you keep us posted on your findings. Which is the heavier platter? Did you find any interesting difference in placing one TT closer to the motor than the other? Are you planning to try the 3012 on the other TT? I'll be glad knowing what combination of tonearm and stereo cartridge in that setup works for the highest dynamic contrast, I don't mean to sound louder at fffff but having more intermediate steps beween ppp and ffff. That's something that lately is obsessing me. I find my vinyl quite acceptable tonally (for my taste and exigence which probably are at a different level than yours) but I'd like it to be more "colorful" dynamically. I hope I've explained myself.
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