Graham Phantom vs Triplaner

Dan

What you are getting at is that the arm tube alone does not seem to dampen enough. Which I agree with and was really my point.

Clearly the phantom fluid level, triplanar fluid or not, and triplanar trough or not make differences.

I will say that while the phantom fluid does improve the balance it does not seem to obscure detail.

Question is how much of the detail in music is obscured by the mass of the arm?

Well it is probably a lot more complicated than all of this!!!

I will stop asking questions and "enjoy the music" as Raul says.

Last Friday night's listening session was quite amazing!!!!

Grasshopper! You have plucked the pebble from my palm! :-):-)

I agree. It's complicated and I'd rather just listen. I just picked up Jorma's River of Time but haven't had the chance to light up my system for more than a week. I'm shaking like a big dose of Starbucks.

Seriously, and just on a layman's observation, the application of damping is different in that the unipivot-based design dampens in close proximity of the pivot bearing and the TP damping is farther down the arm toward the cart. Obviously different applications of damping for different stimulus-sesses. (stimulii? :-) )

My personal view is the the damping on the TP was to satisfy those who would prefer a more "musical sound", as I called it back in the day. Everybody's right! Especially me.

Dan

Is that Jorma K? Is it acoustic and on lp?

I saw Hot Tuna couple year ago in a small theater. Acoustic and electric. Awesome.

By the way, pick up buddy guy n junior wells Going back to acoustic on pure pleasure if you like the blues. Pretty amazing record