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From: cm450s02@uhccux.UUCP (jeff t. segawa)
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Subject: Re: Mercury Filled Speaker Wire
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Date: Mon, 5-Oct-87 21:45:42 EDT
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In article <4139@well.UUCP> rab@well.UUCP (Bob Bickford) writes:
><sigh>  If you are able to detect *ANY* variation in the speed of *ANY*
>turntable based on "stylus drag", then it's time to chuck the thing
>in the trash.

Sure the stylus drag is probably small compared to other sources of 
friction, but aren't those other sources more or less constant, while
the stylus drag is anything but? Considering how tiny some of those
modulations in a typical record groove really are, I don't see why
it should be so hard to belive that tiny speed variations or 
resonances could have an audible effect on the sound. It's a shame
that I don't still have that turntable. I would've loved to let you
hear it for yourself.