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SAMSON Turntable Stand Finished with Clear Lacquer |
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THIS CONFIGURATION INCLUDES: 1 four-inch finished shelf, 2 two-inch finished shelves, a finished LP support bracket, 4 black uprights, 4 brass top caps (2" D), 20 brass shelf nuts (2" D), and 4 threaded brass footers Design and Performance: The physics that lead to a superb sounding turntable stand are directly derived from empirical tests and easy to understand: First, as everyone knows, turntables are exceedingly sensitive to vibration. But the vibration that hurts your turntable’s sound is not speaker vibration transmitted through the air or the floor—contrary to everyone’s conventional wisdom. Our meticulously conducted listening tests prove that the vibration that really degrades sound is almost entirely generated inside your turntable—by the motor, the bearings, the belt or rim drive and by the stylus bouncing around in the record groove. Second, the more of these internally generated vibrations you can drain out of your turntable, the more beautiful your LPs will sound. The most efficient, cleanest-sounding way to do that is to couple your table rigidly to a massive sink for these vibrations that doesn’t reflect back distorted,sound-muddying echoes. Isolating the turntable via rubber, magnetic or air suspensions traps all the vibrations inside the TT, exactly the wrong thing to do. Third, listening tests show the best-sounding material for the all-important sink function is maple, by a surprisingly large margin (for details, see here). And the best way to couple your table to that maple is to mount it on really heavy, non-resonant brass footers using the most rigid possible point contact (for details, see here). Putting all these listening test results together to create the very best-sounding, thoroughly practical turntable mounting we could devise, we came up with the Samson Turntable Stand design features: • Four inch maple top shelf to create the most massive possible vibration sink • Massive 1-1/4” solid steel uprights with two hefty, polished brass nuts locking each maple shelf corner super-rigidly to its corresponding upright. • Two inch shelf under the turntable shelf to hold phono stage or preamp and turntable power supply. • Bottom two inch shelf for up to 150 LPs. • Two inch thick maple rails (left, right and rear) to support the bottom shelf LPs—and to add even more rigidity to the support structure for the four inch turntable top shelf. Ordering Tips: • For best performance on uncarpeted floors, choose our standard footer option. Upgrade to Megafeet for ultimate performance. • To avoid leaving dings on expensive hardwood floors, use our radiused footer options. • On carpet, it is essential for the points of the SAMSON's footers to penetrate the rug and contact the solid floor underneath. • For high pile carpet with padding (more than 1/2" deep), you need thick carpet footers to penetrate to the floor. • For thin commercial wall-to-wall carpet (less than 1/2"), thin carpet footers will sound slightly better than the thick carpet version. Specifications: • Solid 2"and 4" thick air-dried maple shelves finished in clear lacquer. • 2" shelves will support 300+ pounds; 4" will support over 900 pounds. • Shelf dimensions are 26" wide x 19" deep; 21-1/2" width between uprights. • Fully assembled height is 37" from the floor to the upper surface of the top shelf. • 1-1/4" diameter, solid steel vertical supports, fully threaded for infinite adjustability; available with matte black or nickel-zinc plating. • When shelves are equally spaced, the height between shelves is about 13". |
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