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Serial #8 - Oct 18 2000, Fred Humphrey - Campden, Ontario Canada

The platter is mounted on a 13 3/4" length of 2x4 aluminum channel stock, quite massive. The front cross-member is 1 1/2" sq. solid aluminum bar stock, 12'' long and very massive. I had planned on L-stock here, but an interested co-worker gave me the bar stock. This stuff is scarily expensive. The rear cross-member is 7 1/2" of the same. Feet are hardened steel Target spikes (from the British speaker stand co. not the Dayton's economart). The arm board is a pair of 4x7 1/2" thick aluminum plates (also a gift) with 3 layers of 1mm soft vinyl in between. Everything is put together with 1/4" SS hex head bolts. I bought a cheap little 8" Chinese drill press and a tap handle and 1/4" tap, and had a great old time.

What the picture doesn't show is the extreme platter overhang on the end opposite the armboard. The point of this is to make the underside of the platter accessible for friction drive from a high torque AC synchronous motor. Kal has helped me persevere in finding IC's for a precision sine-cosine supply, but with the Teres sounding so good as is, I probably won't get to it until late winter if then. Got to get the low hum out of my DHT preamp and amp drivers and get my heavily modified Siren Song 2 phono stage working before I do any more to the Teres.

The arm is the fully modded Origin Live Rega RB-250 which ended up being pretty expensive, but it sounds great. Cartridge is a Stanton 881 which I moved over from the Maplenoll so I could make meaningful comparisons of the effect changing only TT and arm has on the sound.

Since I bought an extra brass motor mounting plate, I think I'll try the Epstein-Schei syndrome motor base idea: 8mm brass tubes connecting the brass plates and some SS mesh or cable shield around a cardboard or plastic cylinder just inside the brass tubing to jazz it up. -- Fred