celander, Regarding your proposed use of the damping tape with the London cartridge, if you think about the physics of the situation, is it not possible that by wrapping the tonearm wand, you are inhibiting its capacity to dissipate energy transmitted into it from the cartridge, by inhibiting its capacity to vibrate? This would result in the energy moving either to the pivot or back to the headshell, both of which are to be avoided. I guess, best case, the energy is dissipated as heat in the arm tube. Anyway, let us know how it works out. We toss these terms around, but in fact most of the time the physics is complex and requires a deep understanding to predict.
Foil damping tape as a tonearm tube wrap?
There has been a couple sporadic posts recently about using a product called 3M foil damping tape to wrap tonearm tubes. The tape is normally used in applications to reduce unwanted vibrations in the product to which the tape is attached. In the particular tonearm wrap applications, users claim a noticeable improvement in sonic qualities of vinyl playback. I created this thread to catalog impressions of others who have used this material, their particular tonearm wrap applications and their take away stories. Who has used this product for tonearm wraps? Thoughts?