Recycle that old turntable:
http://www.theanalogdept.com/bushman1.htm

Good Conversation:
http://www.audioasylum.com/audio/vinyl/bbs.html

A project with explaination:
http://www.decdun.fsnet.co.uk/turntables.html

Some other guy’s project:
http://home.earthlink.net/~jeremyepstein/teres.html

As far as stone, I was in Paris once..........this artist set up a shop/exhibit in a park. What he had was a special limestone that was soaking in water for days. You could carve it with simple hand tools into the softend stone. Remember that natural stones are pourous so they will soak up water. Next time you look at a stone carving on an old church, remember not everything must be cut & tooled with a band saw, and put together with motar. I say carve up something beautiful with free flowing lines. If it does not sound all that great, at least it will look good.

Holy cow, I knew I had come to the right place to ask my question. No matter how crazy or obscure the topic, I can always get a ton of info here. What is it about Porsche owners, eh? :D

tube v. solid state
reel to reel v. CD

Why is it that you can't duplicate the richness of a tube reel to reel? The CD just doesn't seem to have the flavor?

Remember many types of stone are quite fragile depending on their structure. One bump the wrong way and the project splits in half. A composite of rock/stone material in a resin base could be machinable, but too often looks and feels fake.

I'm jumping in at the end of this one, but has anybody mentioned high quality Italian Slate, as used in the top quality pool tables?

I know someone who cut a hole through his floorboards and bricked up a column from the ground below into his living room to support his turntable. The section above the floorboards was rendered to match the internal walls of the house.

Some audiophile types do not know when genug is genug.

I don't know what genug is...but is it like folks here who argue that spending $5K or so on a pair of brake calipers is a good thing to do?

Sort of. "Genug" means "enough" in German.

I have also come across muso-types who swear they can pick a difference in sound between different types of speaker cabinet grille cloth.

Talk about the princess and the pea.

Savage heathens!:mad:

Everyone knows to remove the grill cloth before doing serious listening.

Also to do:

1. Turn off the lights

2. Unplug the computer, TV and refrigator (anything in the circuit).

3. Go next door (down the block if you can) and do the same to each house, each side minimum or 100 foot radius.

4. Close all the doors in the house.

5. Drape sound absorbing material on all reflective surfaces, I use a heavy wool blanket over the TV.

I could go on, but you get the point. Going to batteries or off-grounds independent generator is what some do. No kidding.SmileWavy

uhh, doesn't everybody? :)

Sherwood

Look up "surface plates" on www.mcmaster.com Granite plates are at the bottom of the page. This part number should be what you would need 2245A21, is 130lbs enough?