"Keith G" wrote in message


Blx - meant to say this deck is what got me into acrylic platters. The
platter on an LPT1 was *completely machined* from acrylic sheet (at
hideous cost, apparently) for perfect balance - not just punched out
of a sheet.

The idea that 12" disks would be punched out of a sheet of acrylic is
complete ********. They'd either be molded from resin or machined. Acrylic
in likely thicknesses can't be punched - it will shatter along the edge.

Once you have used an acrylic platter you won't want
anything else - there's something so damned 'sympatico' about them -
and I don't mean in a 'technobabble' way (compatible resonances etc.)...

So far we've been told that the holy grail in turntable platters is either
glass or plexiglass. These are very different materials. The fact that the
parameters of a 100 year old technology can't be nailed down any better
then this is indicative of how much ******** rules the world of vinyl
playback engineering.