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Post subject: Turntable Platte Pads

Posted: November 26th, 2024, 1:04 pm

Joined: July 24th, 2015, 4:17 pm
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Location: Parkville, Maryland

A turntable platter-pad has more influence over the playback quality than is generally believed. You have rubber, neoprene, lead-infused rubber, titanium infused-rubber, cork, leather, acrylic, Delrin, copper, brass, and glass types to name a few. They all influence what the “dumb” cartridge is getting from the vinyl record in different ways. For lack of a more involved dissertation, they all act as sort of tone control.

Enter the Soundeck (product from the UK). Basic physics applied to what at first-blush may seem a simple application. The Soundeck product (the latest version) comprises two aluminum disks forming a sandwich with a constrained layer that has an overall 4-mm thickness. The finished product is epoxy powder coated rather than painted.

What this pad provides is effective isolation from the platter it is placed on and eliminates reflected vibrations up through the record from the playback activity.

A record clamped on a Soundeck padded turntable is acoustically dead as dead can be. How about the sound after all of this bragging? I found that fine details, otherwise obscured, became quite clear and evident like background audience chatter at a live recording. The treble and especially the mid-range come across as if you were previously listening to music with cotton balls stuffed in your ears (for want of a better explanation). Other anomalies such as grainy or harsh treble that one could lay blame that was actually cut into the record were never there to begin with. Same goes with the mid-range – just more open and “see through.” Bass gets tighter and the overall “slam” (if in the recording) gets more lifelike. The pad disables “bleed” from note to note. Sort of like when one plays a piano using the pedals to stop a chord (dampen) rather than letting it continue to resonate to the next chord.

Here is the link: https://soundeck.bigcartel.com/product/ ... nium-black

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Guy

Post subject: Re: Turntable Platte Pads

Posted: November 26th, 2024, 2:40 pm

Joined: March 5th, 2013, 9:35 am
Posts: 267
Location: Highland, MD

Thanks for the clear review of this pad. It is one item still missing from my system. :handgestures-thumbupleft:

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Post subject: Re: Turntable Platte Pads

Posted: November 26th, 2024, 2:49 pm

Joined: February 28th, 2013, 3:31 pm
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The ability to get rid of stored energy anywhere in the playback system is critical for getting the maximum detail out of the recording without harshness. When energy is stored, the info tends to step on following notes. This creates loss of detail and distortions. When timing is correct and stored energy minimized. the result is what I call enhanced texture. All the voices separate, strings and horn harmonics become cleaner, etc. Definitely worth working on that.

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Post subject: Re: Turntable Platte Pads

Posted: November 26th, 2024, 4:40 pm

Joined: July 24th, 2015, 4:17 pm
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Location: Parkville, Maryland

tomp wrote:

Well said and a perfect explanation of what the Soundeck pad accomplishes. :handgestures-thumbupleft:

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