[Sonnova]

On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:20:37 -0700, Mike Gilmour wrote
(in article ):

"Peter Wieck" wrote in message
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On Sep 16, 6:39 pm, Steven Sullivan wrote:
Peter Wieck wrote:
Were it not for the date, none of this would be the slightest bit
surprising

There's no reason to believe it's an April Fool's day spoof.

--
-S
A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence. -- David
Hume, "On Miracles"
(1748)

Um.... Ummm....

(For the sake of the moderators, I am slapping down my fingers)

Ummmm.... and do you really think that a turntable with a belt that
long, even of an "ideal" material, is going to be able to maintain a
steady speed? And if so, from a standing start, how long will it take
to stabilize? And *Dental Floss* as the belt material? Before you
answer, consider the specific use for and nature of Dental Floss.

That is only one "flaw/fly" in its ointment!

Peter Wieck
Melrose Park, PA

Firstly I'd guess he's not married otherwise its unlikely he'd have all
those egg cartons around.
Dental floss has been used for this purpose by audiophiles for many years,
e.g the Forsell turntable. Usually when the floss drives heavy platters it
requires a manual spin to start the platter turning. It's believed that
increasing the distance further isolates motor transfer noise to the platter
but I've seen no tests to confirm that. At least floss is a cheap 'tweak' in
audiophile terms. Personally speaking I couldn't possibly enjoy my music in
that environment.

Mike

"Common sense physics" tells me that like most everything else, this motor
isolation ploy used to extreme in the system under discussion here, is a
question of diminishing returns. There is probably a distance from the
platter at which maximum useful isolation is obtained, and then after that,
there is no further audible or measurable improvement. I don't pretend to
know what that distance is, but I bet that there are mathematical ways of
determining what that distance is.