hold your

turntable in your hands while playing a piece of piano music so that your deck is not on a stiff support.

then workout why it wows.

this goes for any deck . direct drive or belt. suspended or non suspended.

now try to workout why it does this.

now think about the physical mass properties of your deck in regards to the stylus accelerations and moving mass of the cartridge.

the sub chassis of the deck has more moving mass at very low freqs than the excursion of the stylus in regards its coils'/magnets.

this can only mean one thing and is the most misjudged part of turntables ever.

try running a 1kw p.a. cab 5 inches away from your deck and you will soon see why it needs to be on a stiff , light low q , semi resonant structure. at least this way energy in the system can dissapate fast and clean.

forget really heavy structures as they can never be heavy enough.

i tried a microscope base that was about £7500 and the deck used to wow when a car went past as the table set the deck going as the deck could never be in one place.

this just confused the stylus in the groove and made the drive system servos wow or the belt to wow in terms of the excursions of the bigger mass ( the deck itself ).

i now use a turntable that has virtually no mass or resonance in its sub chassis because it does not have one apart from a triangle of thick un resonant acrylic.

i have tried loads of solid !!!! bases and they all sound fairly similar except some reflect more energy back into the deck than others. the best one i have found is an 1 1/2 inch thich bit of acrylic straight onto the wall bracket as it just seems inert in terms of wide or narrow resonance so the stylus does not see as many reflections / deflections from it's mounting.

this means the deck can just get on with what its supposed to be doing.

going round at the right speed with little accoustic interfearance.