Jonni goes tweeking mad ,with his LP12 Gaa , Gaa.

Just done something really awesome to my Lp12, but not eveyone would like it

It started this morning , I have had a Circus bearing for a while but had not got round to fitting the new springs as the old ones were fine.
Anyway I went to put them on today and I could get the *&%£ thing to bounce, after one hour!a lot of swearing and visions of throwing my Lp12 through the window I discovered that the bolts that hold the springs were bent , this must be the cause I thought so I planned to get some new ones tomorrow, but while I had my deck open I thought I'd try something out.
A friend of mine used to have a Roksan Xerxes which i quite liked which rested on sorbothane(spelling?)blobs .
I had some sorbothane Folcopods I dont use lying about , "why not use those instead of springs and see what happens?" I thought.
I quickly made a hole in each folcopod and inserted them in place of the springs.(It was actually more complicated than that but I save you the details)
I then put the thing back together and sat back , what would I get?
On the first record the sound thundered out of the speakers solid and dynamic.What a result , I quickly tried out more and more records, I actually prefered the sound to the sprung deck.
Basically you get a more solid faster and dynamic sound, you loose a bit of air and smoothness but not much else, and the best thing is you can always put the springs back on if you don't like it.
I'm going to try out some different sizes and types of rubber blobs to see if I can get a better results as I think the ones I have are to big and stiff to be optimum.