[Arny Krueger]

"Jenn" wrote in
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"R. Stanton" wrote:

On Nov 30, 3:24 pm, wrote:
Dropped back by to have a look and see what, if
anything had changed on RAO.

Still the same as it ever was.

Very little audio and plenty of name calling.

A waste of time.

Right, and the solution is to simply discuss audio on other audio groups
that lack the negative influences of the usual list of suspects., such as
Middius and his clique.

Not the same a ever, it's worse. However, every once in
a blue moon, there is an interesting discussion on audio.

OK, here's an audio topic: On LPs that are nominally
flat, do record clamps affect the sound?

What do you expect the clamp to do if the record is already flat?

I imagine that a clamp might put the LP into more intimate contact with a
vibration-damping facility.

A lot then depends on whether LPs are significantly resonant, and whether
the clamp affects any such resonances.

I believe that actual resonance or vibration of the LP is a very minor
effect. I don't believe I've ever seen any meausrements of it. Not that LP
playback is not rife with resonances, its just that the other ones are far
more significant.

LP proponents seem to be completely ignorant of the basic technical
literature of LP playback, which discusses issues like this. I think that if
one of the all-time greats of LP technology such as Benjamin Bauer were
posting here today, he'd point out the major detriments to fidelity of the
LP, and say that they were far more important that issues that record claims
can address.

For example:

http://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=740