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Periphery Record Rings

Who uses one of these periphery record rings, like the VPI? Theoretically they make a lot of sense. What is your experience with them?

Has anyone seen this auction over at Audiogon ...

http://cgi.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/auc.pl?accstwek&1235444247&1234963855

It's a brass ring without the outer downward facing "lip" on the VPI ring, which won't work on all tables due to lack of belt clearance. I would guess brass would be better, since it is denser and purportedly results in better sound than other metals. Anyone seen one of these "ttouter" rings and can vouch for the quality of the workmanship and uniformity of it?

thanks,
Bob
ptmconsulting
ttweights
50 posts
 
Outer Ring RUNOUT Near perfect

Check out the runout when installed less than .010 Total Indicator Reading

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnzDGGAmtDo

Cheers
Larry
ttweights
50 posts
 
Hi guys, we have a newLight Outer Ring version now, just making three weights, 250 - 350 and 400
Diameter will be aprox. 12.0 to 12.5 inches.

Also engineering a super light clamp for the Oracles so we can use an outer ring and our clamp, stay tuned.......

Please email if interested or you have any comments or ideas

Cheers
Larry
larryd@ljtmfg.com

Thanks
Larry
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srwooten
694 posts
 
WOW! Pretty slick!
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audioblazer
321 posts
 
Quite keen to experiment with this periphery ring. However is wondering what is the risk of dropping catridge needle on the ring?
downunder
1,328 posts
 
I have used the VPI HRX outer ring for 6 years.

As ong as you are careful and use the cueing device you will have no problems. After all how many times to you miss the platter completely??

You have a lot more potential issues when setting up a cartridge.
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