I have an question I'd like to pose to our esteemed members in the hopes of getting some more insight into a phenomenon I've noticed over the years. Ready?
So, when a record is playing, if you turn down/off your amp and get close to your record player of choice, you can usually hear the music playing. This would be because the cartridge body, headshell and arm are actually resonating as the music plays much like a guitar body.
My question is simply this - is there a correlation between the volume of the sound being produced and the overall quality of the turntable system ? In my own experience it seems there is. My older players (like a cheap Panasonic table with ceramic cartridge or my Duals) produced a very audible sound you could hear across the room. Even later tables like a Technics SL-B205 still managed to sing a mean tune on their own. But when I finally put some really nice tables in my system, I found that the sound of the table was virtually NIL.
It would seem that you don't want the cart/arm resonating enough to be audible as that would certainly color the sound, right ?
I'm happy to be totally wrong here...just curious to get other members take on this phenomenon.
So, when a record is playing, if you turn down/off your amp and get close to your record player of choice, you can usually hear the music playing. This would be because the cartridge body, headshell and arm are actually resonating as the music plays much like a guitar body.
My question is simply this - is there a correlation between the volume of the sound being produced and the overall quality of the turntable system ? In my own experience it seems there is. My older players (like a cheap Panasonic table with ceramic cartridge or my Duals) produced a very audible sound you could hear across the room. Even later tables like a Technics SL-B205 still managed to sing a mean tune on their own. But when I finally put some really nice tables in my system, I found that the sound of the table was virtually NIL.
It would seem that you don't want the cart/arm resonating enough to be audible as that would certainly color the sound, right ?
I'm happy to be totally wrong here...just curious to get other members take on this phenomenon.