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From: ssp@sun.uucp (Stephen Page)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: Cultist Audiophology Comes To CDs?
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Date: Wed, 21-Nov-84 00:29:05 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 21 00:29:05 1984
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> 	If you have a compact disc that sounds like
> 	a floppy disk whenever someone walks across
> 	the floor or a tonearm that mistracks when
> 	the cat sneezes......next door, we suggest
> 	a Lead Baloon.  This exceedingly stable
> 	isolation platform has a resonant frequency
> 	below 1 Hz, weighs 48 lbs. & goes for $200.
> 	(About $4/lb. - veal should be so cheap.)
> 
> Note that this isolator is being touted as being a sonic improvement
> for CD players.
> 
     Boothroyd Stuart Meridian (high end UK electronics and speakers) mention
in an article about the design of their CD player (in New Hi-Fi sound, I think)
that they found all CD players to be somewhat microphonic and that vibrations
would send them into error-correcting mode.  So, yes, the lead balloon would
help.
     Their player sounds like the best CD going at the moment.  It uses the
Philips drive and oversampling technique, but very purist electronics.  I
heard it at the local high-end store and it did sound fine.  Better than a
$1,000 analogue disk player?  In some ways.  Better than a $2,000 one?  I'm
not so sure.  I won't be buying one yet.
     Re: previous TipToes message; The Abso!ute Sound concurs about the Tiptoes,
the *biggest* improvement being found by so supporting the turntable.  Anything
that helps isolate the stylus <-> groove interface will make a BIG difference 
to LP sound.

     I'm new to this whole net thing.  Please excuse my faux pas.
'Too new to quip fancily'
     Stephen Page