[TheChairGuy]

I couldn't resist 

I was in Ben Franklin Crafts, saw some great looking terra-cotta colored clay for $3.99 and, well, had been hankering to clay the top of my plastic-plinthed Japanese direct drive.  Having experimented before with two other plastic bodies JVC's and found that clay'ing the top gains a serious measure of extra performance...I went for it 

My components are now all hidden behind an armoire door...and, besides, the terra-cotta clay cover isn't much worse than stock.  The JVC QL-F6 was never a looker in my book  ...but my oh my, does it now ever perform.

I can bang on the top plinth during loud playback and nary a thump enters back into the sonic chain.  The less of this one can control...the better for performance.  The little extra trace of 'noise' has been removed from playback and low-end grunt is just more noticeable now (even with speakers that have little output below 40hz).

Come one fella's - you with those cheapo 70/80's era Japanese tables...take your clay-rrific efforts to the max.  Get on top - like a man! 

John

[Russell Dawkins]

That's disgusting all right.

Did you ever hear of the boy who cried "wolf!"?

[steve k]

Are you sure that's not silly putty?

[ohenry]

Take a Sharpie, draw some veins, and call it "tumor table".

[WGH]

Add a few chunks and you would have a real conversation piece

[TheChairGuy]

I do sadly see a certain resemblance to those chunks - ewey 

John

[Airborn]

John, even without the chunks it's pretty F'ugly.  However, having plasticlayed my totally plastic Audio Technica AT-PL50, I bet it sounds great!

[Wayner]

You are a sick bastard!

 

[Wayner]

Also, quit being so damn lazy and put your crap on the inside!

 

[bluesky]

Hi

This is the opportunity I been waiting for, this is a true story..........

At a recent audio club meeting I went to I had a conversation with a chap who gave me his thoeries of "vibrational feedback", which is thus:

All components must be housed atop triangles of foam facing in opposite directions and then mounted on hardwood plywood twice the size of the component.  After this you must bury all your cables in sand.  Apparently it gives excellent sonic results.

I must admit that all I could think of at the time is "Gee, I could pretend I'm at the beach when listening to music!".

Whilst it may just work I can't imagine it generating much WAF.

Bluesky

[Wayner]

I also like how you didn't cover up the name and model number. WTF does that matter? 

W  aa

[bacobits1]

This is much too much funny.
My cat was working on something like that for a week.

WoW! Hide that table John.
I think you need to make a custom home made table from scratch at least the plinth.
I'm too anal I couldn't do that to a table.

Den

[TheChairGuy]

I also like how you didn't cover up the name and model number. WTF does that matter? 

W  aa

Ha - yeah, good point.  I have an odd sense of aesthetics, no?  aa

The table is hidden from view behind large armoire doors now.  The previous two decks I did (when I was 22 and a few years ago) were not, however.  Damn, they looked ugly, too 

The performance upgrade is seriously worth the aesthetic bother on this one, folks...at least, to me.

John 

[Miney]

don't tell me...  let me guess...

This was the first LP you played? 



But seriously...  whatever works, dammit!

[Don_S]

It won't look so "pretty" after it starts to collect dust bunnies.  You vinyl guys are....

[TheChairGuy]

WHen it ever accumulates too many dust balls, I simply take off the layer and make a new one.  Or, more likely, by then I'd have moved on to something else.  Maybe not, but maybe 

Paul/Miney - come on, you KNOW you wanna' do it  aa

John