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In the Thread: Mastodont DIY Rack: Wall Mount?

Post Subject: The best pickup - is a pickupPosted by rowuk on: 12/2/2013

Hi N,
I just use my turntable, arm and cartridge to measure the effects of vibrations. Don't turn the platter on, drop the cartridge into a groove and your phono corrector output will tell you everything that you need to know - as it would happen during playback. You can even locate the position of least destructive resonance by moving the turntable around until you are happy.

Just plug the phono corrector into a PC and you will have a very effective source for spectral analysis.

I am very suspicious of digital sources that are microphonic. There is simply no need for a DAC to be sensitive to airborne vibrations. I would suspect that cables would have to be hundreds of times more "sensitive" and no one uses lead shot or sand there...............

Although, I might just try.......

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