max graff wrote:
Hi guys,

i was reading the following article -

http://gallery.audioreview.com/showp...5&limit=recent

someone on here suggests getting rid of the the stock feet of the debut
III with adjustable cones to improve sound quality.

I was wondering how would that affect sound quality? I have pretty
sturdy stand and tiled flooring so vibrations aren't much of a problem.

Any tips?

Cheers

Max


I think this is another case of "different, so must be better". By that
I mean that changing the soft rubber feet for hard cones will couple the
turntable to the support, as there's no other form of isolation. This
will make the turntable behave differently to acoustic feedback, it will
make it more susceptible to feedback, as whatever the support is will be
storing energy, and passing it directly to the turntable which is now
intimately coupled to it. Previously, with the soft rubber feet, only
acoustic energy falling directly on the turntable (including of course
the cover) could give rise to feedback.

Consequently, the turntable system will now sound different, and in this
peculiar world many of us inhabit, any change is seen as an improvement.
If the turntable had genuinely sounded better with hard cones rather
than rubber feet, don't you suppose the manufacturer might have supplied
it that way?

S.