Clearaudio Quadro clamp

[Masterlu]

Originally Posted by Pojuojuo

Sadly weight clamps are not useful in standard platters. Sorry but I don't agree

Weight clamps make a difference on all 3 of my TT rigs. Different clamps also yield different results.

[Pojuojuo]

Size of the vinyls are always different because it depends on their weight.
Different sizes need different weights. If you have an fixed weight clamp you are not doing things properly.
The reason is because of the small step all platters have that helps to the vinyl to bend a little bit to get more damping factor thanks to the sum of platter and vinyl mass.

The only way that fixed weight clamps help is in totally planar platters, e.g. Clearaudio Statement.

I hope everybody can understand my explanation.

[Pojuojuo]

Of course different clamps make different results, but you can't get THE BEST result (or maybe yes)

[Masterlu]

I have somewhat of a clamp collection:

ClearAudio Quadro
ClearAudio Statement
Furutech Monza
Aluminati Standard
Aluminati Heavy Stainless
HRS ADL (light)
HRS ADH (heavy)
VPI stock clamp
Avid stock screw clamp

Come to think of it; I may have "Clamp Issues"

[Pojuojuo]

Best clamps are the different pressure clamps. Like twister clamp from clearaudio, feickert clamp, spj clamp..... etc etc


Congratulation for your clamp collection ;-D

[AM123]

Originally Posted by PHC1

That looks like a serious clamp.

Originally Posted by PHC1

What the clamp or the Statement? There was a guy recently who bought two of the Statements, one for his house and the other for his yacht. At $150k a pop. Rumor has it he also broke both stylii in $10k cartridges. Oooops...

I have a yacht and even with a stabilizer at shore, there is no way a high quality table will work properly unless dry docked where I am.

Would love to see this guys set up.

[rlw3]

Originally Posted by PHC1

Well I did find good use for the plastic clamp, to hold the Feickert protractor down nice and tight.

I like this idea, thanks
Wonder what this weight weighs compared to the 448 gram aluminati; and if the differences are due to the heaviness tempering resonances.

[edkoz]

Originally Posted by jdandy

This is my clamp. It has a bubble level in the top of it. Nice insurance for checking on a level platter.

Dan
Who sells the bubble top clamp !!!Looks niffty. What is its weight ? I would be interested in getting one
Ed

[rlw3]

Originally Posted by Pojuojuo

Size of the vinyls are always different because it depends on their weight.
Different sizes need different weights. If you have an fixed weight clamp you are not doing things properly.
The reason is because of the small step all platters have that helps to the vinyl to bend a little bit to get more damping factor thanks to the sum of platter and vinyl mass.

The only way that fixed weight clamps help is in totally planar platters, e.g. Clearaudio Statement.

I hope everybody can understand my explanation.

My vpi tnt has a very strong motor with 2 belts. With my sutherland timeline the tnt shows remarkable speed variation due to different weight clamps/weights or the lp weight itself. In an email to Matt at aluminati when I bought the great $50 lp weight I asked: Does a platter running a little fast give the appearance of being lively- he replied yes. So speed not only changes timber but when altered just a little effects perception. If you are going to use different weights you need to be able to adjust speed otherwise a heavy one is going to sound sluggish

[Pojuojuo]

I added to my Clearaudio turntable different clamps and also a new outer clamp (Outer ring) and velocity remains the same without problems. I checked it!
I usually review some other turntables to Hifilive.es emagazine and they also have constant speed adding different clamps....

I agree about the more velocity the lively sound