weinerdog Posted March 26, 2016 Share Posted March 26, 2016 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/959799437/atmo-sferatm-platterless-turntable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Requiescat Posted March 26, 2016 Share Posted March 26, 2016 Uhm, that's not "platterless". The surface the record sits on is still a platter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajxd Posted March 26, 2016 Share Posted March 26, 2016 Not going to lie, I like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professor Finn Posted March 26, 2016 Share Posted March 26, 2016 I don't really like the design, but if it plays records amazingly then what does it matter. also it doesn't come with a dust cover??? What the hell guys! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steventangent Posted March 26, 2016 Share Posted March 26, 2016 bluethoot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professor Finn Posted March 26, 2016 Share Posted March 26, 2016 bluethoot I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed that XD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allenh Posted March 26, 2016 Share Posted March 26, 2016 It looks pretty and looks beautifully engineered but what's the point of it? am I missing something? It's April 1st is it? Seriously am I the only one who thinks this is the most stupid idea for quite some time? Its a study in how to introduce warps into play on a perfectly flat record, has no one ever heard one of those portable things? I thought the whole point of a platter was to support the flimsy record and to stop it moving in a vertical plane as it's played and to offer some isolation from outside forces again to stop it moving and transferring that movement into the stylus. I wouldn't walk around near this thing and you better not listen to any music that makes you dance anywhere near it. The platter on a turntable is there for very good reasons so pretty as this looks this is another example of trying to fix a problem that isn't really there in the first place and in this case by removing the platter all the maker will succeed in doing is re introducing the problems the platter removes by being there in the first place. The theory here is that the transducer (the cartridge and stylus) should be in free air and it's a valid one which is also true of a speaker but the problem here is that the whole playing feedback loop isn't in free air, the arm and especially the stylus are not in free air so all this does is remove the force that is counter acting and trying to equalize the force of the arm The material a platter is made of has all sorts of effects on the sound produced but removing it really doesn't have a good effect at all. The effect on the cartridges suspension will be terrible as it's designed to flex from a reference plane which is the platter so if the record is also moving all you will have is chaos at the point of contact Another upside of having a platter is it's effect on speed regulation so again removing it makes life harder from an engineering perspective, especially with a belt drive table. The other problem is that any sales blurb that starts with the sentence "Modern urban lifestyle" obviously has a lot more to do with aesthetics that science and engineering. F.F.S. This ones almost as, if not more stupid and pointless than the vertical one. Tommy and swemoll 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arem Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 I thought it looked ridiculous too but apparently a very similar design has been done before and sounded great according to some peopl on the Hoffman forums, so who knows? I'd be curious to see/hear it in person. http://www.museatex.com/at2.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinyl addict Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 Try playing an old Dynaflex LP on that thing. That small platter is good for 45s, that's about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Vool Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 meh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 I also like the $1k table, with the $35 cart. Not that the AT95E is a bad cartridge, but you'd think they'd give you something a little higher up the chain when the components cost so much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allenh Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 I thought it looked ridiculous too but apparently a very similar design has been done before and sounded great according to some peopl on the Hoffman forums, so who knows? I'd be curious to see/hear it in person. http://www.museatex.com/at2.htm I'll put money on the nice arm, cart and tone arm wire is why it sounds nice but I bet it would sound a whole lot nicer and track a lot better if you added an acrylic platter to it, even a 5mm thick one would do the trick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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