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    The American Sound Turntable- Beyond's Minimalist!

    https://www.newwayairbearings.com/catalog/air-bushings/ Have a look at this site for an example of an air bushing. The manufacturer of the bushing would specify the needed "clearance" between spindle and bushing along with a recommended air pressure. Scott
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    The American Sound Turntable- Beyond's Minimalist!

    I would assume the spindle - bushing is also an air bearing..
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    American Sound, "The Absolute Nothing"

    Peter, Do you know if there was any type of FEA done on the 3D models to find the one that controlled resonance the best? I would think it would be cost prohibitive to manufacture multiple samples for a listening test.. I'm assuming that a 300 series stainless was used for the platter as this...
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    AXPONA 2024 Ron Reporting

    This room was one of my favorites also.
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    American Sound, "The Absolute Nothing"

    As a Tool and Die Maker I really can appreciate the time and effort put into the CAD design, programming and the machining. As Lagonda stated the more I look at it the more I like it. Congrats David!
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    ARC SP-6A Tube Preamp

    Have you looked at the ARC database? https://www.arcdb.ws/model/SP6 There is a photo not sure if it is the view you need. Scott
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    Esoteric Grandioso T1 turntable arrives; G1X Master Clock coming.

    Mike, Congrats on your retirement!! Enjoy! Scott
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    Natural Sound

    Peter, That's great that you were able to enhance the performance of your system for next to no $$ ! Scott
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    Best capacitors for power amps...

    WBT makes both leaded and lead free solder. I agree lead free solder is a PIA.
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    AXPONA 2023

    They were really nice, one of the better speaker / systems I heard yesterday.
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    Esoteric Grandioso T1 turntable arrives; G1X Master Clock coming.

    I have a stand alone motor assembly so I'll adjust belt tension to achieve the fastest speed the adjust the freq. to get to33.33 rpm. I think in my case too much tension puts too much of a load on the motor bearings thus slowing the platter down. I'm going to find my manual and play around with...
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    Esoteric Grandioso T1 turntable arrives; G1X Master Clock coming.

    Peter, Did you notice any differences when you did make adjustments to the voltage and frequency ? I built the DIY version of this speed controller that Bill made available on the DIY audio forums but I never played around with any of the adjustments. Thanks, Scott
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    What are the best tweaks in your experience?

    I had the Sumiko Master Set done a few years ago, it was the best $450.00 I have spent..and I thought I was pretty close on speaker location. Scott
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    Alternative static eliminator for vinyl playback

    Kcin, Can you hear fan noise when this is in use?
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    What turntables do you use? Pictures would be nice as well :-)

    He used 316 series stainless steel.
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