Shared or alone - what is the latest thinking?

Turntables should have there own supports,as should all components really.

I have placed my Turntable on its own stand. The stand is as far away as I can get it from the amp's to avoid any vibrations or interference.

I have also placed the Turntables power amps on a seperate support again as far away from the power amp's as possible.

Regards

NB

I have my turntable on a wallshelf, seperate from the rest of the kit. It seems very happy there.

Regards
Steve

Hi Roy T:

My TT hangs from the ceiling. This approach really is a 'must hear' if you have the willpower.

Best Regards,
Mark Dunn¯

I understand there might be a difference, but I tried to place my Rega Planar 3 on either the top of my 5-shelf Target stand and on a separate shelf - and honestly can't hear the difference.

So it's back on the top of the Target where is looks so great...

What I would like to be able to do is to have my turntable at close to eye level so that I have a fair chance of placing the stylus onto the disk without causing damage to either disk or stylus.

As my sight is not too good I find that crawling about on the floor so as to be on a level with disk and stylus to be both hard on my knees and it shows me in a rather unflattering light when friends pop round for a listen.

I would rather not attach a wall shelf type of stand as I like to move my system about the room every now an then and would find a fixed position for the turntable to be rather limiting. At this moment in time my deck, amp and tuner each have their own old fashioned SO one shelf rack and I have sore knees.

Any further ideas?

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Originally posted by Mark Dunn:
Hi Roy T:

My TT hangs from the ceiling. This approach really is a 'must hear' if you have the willpower.

Best Regards,
Mark Dunn¯

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Mark
Interesting idea. Can you supply a photo?
Terry

Should be about the right height...

I'm doing that problem area of new racks. I came to this sorry position because I have run out of space. I'm looking to get two 5 tier racks so that I have plenty of space to keep things apart and to allow for future olive boxes.

How would people lay out the following:

Full width is 135/250 shape while
shoebox width is 72/hi-cap shape

CD Transport (full width)
DAC (shoebox shape)
DAC P/S (shoebox shape)
72 (expect 52)
Hi-Cap (expect Supercap)
135 (x2)
NAT-01

The main question is on things like the Quadraspire / Mana they have special isolation on the top shelf. The CD transport obviously goes on one. But what do you stick on the other one?

Thanks, Andrew

Andrew,
a few year’s ago I worked on a set of programmes used in the design and construction of much larger system, the software I had a hand in would allow you to specify what you wanted in the big box and the software would then take care of kit dependencies and the like. The end result was you got what you wanted (well asked for), all the bits fitted into the box and all the bits worked together.

Would it be possible to do the same thing for Naim boxes and Fraim stands?

My first thought cover box size, interconnection lengths, above and side by side placements and perhaps source first logic? This system could even price the desired kit and display a picture on the screen for the dealer to clinch the sale.

Not too much of a task for some of the brains on the forum, perhaps Naim could sponsor this idea and charge the dealers for the use of this sales tool.

I'd like to see a turntable wall shelf in Fraim style to save having to start a second Fraim stack (one for CDS2 and one for turntable). Please Naim!

My turntable sounds better when it has a decent support all to itself.

My system sounds better when the LP12 is kept as far away from it as possible (well, a couple of feet seems to do the trick).

cheers, Martin

Hi all:

plynnplynn wrote of my hanging LP12...

>Mark
Interesting idea. Can you supply a photo?<

Terry, I'm on the road at the moment (as always) but will post one at the weekend.

Best Regards,
Mark Dunn±

Hi Terry:

Here's the pic I promised.

Best Regards,
Mark Dunn

no permanent partner then Mark?

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Originally posted by Mark Dunn:
Hi Terry:

Here's the pic I promised.

Best Regards,
Mark Dunn

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Thanks Mark
You can't get much better isolation than that. Is there any movement (swing or rock - motion not sound) when the turntable is working?
Terry

Hi all:

Bob M wrote:

>no permanent partner then Mark?<

Hi Bob, my wife of 12 years (normally introduced as 'my first wife...') is either very understanding or has given up banging her head on some mad bugger's wall. She allows me a dedicated listening room tha t's my dominion. As long as I don't stray outside with my experiments, I'm safe.

Terry:

When starting or stopping there's a slight twisting motion but when up to speed it seems to be completely still. Also, there's a cut-out in the shelf to allow fine f ettling in situ.

Best Regards,
Mark Dunn3

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Originally posted by Mark Dunn:
Hi Terry:

Here's the pic I promised.

Best Regards,
Mark Dunn

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Mark - Respect.

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