Nottingham and Teres comparison

4yanks, does this dealer live in California? I can't see any east coast hawkish dealers doing that comparisson if their lives depended on it!! I am dying to hear the TERES against my custom made maple base TT.(see: "VPI redesigning experiment") on the Analog site.
By the way, a local record shop has a notingham TT with a wooden platter, I have never heard that before, does anybody know about that and it's resulting sound?

Some of the lower end Nottinghams have HDF platters, not wood. I have never heard of a real wood platter on a Nottingham. The new Teres 265 has a real wood platter made of Cocobolo wood laminated for stability, that is nearly three inches thick. I have not heard this platter yet, but it is claimed to be awesome.

I believe that the very earliest vesions of the Interspace were all-wood in design, including the platter. Now, the platter of the Interspace is made of HDF with bronze perimeter weighting. The Spacedeck platter is of an alloy with perimeter damping. The Hyperspace has an alloy "sub" platter with a 25mm graphite "top" platter. The Anna has a gravity-spun cast iron "sub" platter with the same 25mm "top" platter. In addition, the plinth of the Anna is made from layers of pitch pine laminated into a spiral. It looks like a log - thus Anna Log! :-)

There is currently a thick graphite mat available for the Spacedeck, and Interspace, at the tune of about $280.

Twl and 4yanx, those exotic TT platters HAVE to sound better than my HR-X vpi acrylic platter, I am tired of changing stuff, in less than 2 years I have gone through 4 incarnations of upscale model TT's. Cocobolo platter? dream on Theo! I don't know where to put my money now, to the wood platter or to an extra Power Conditioner of a passive nature, like the Hydra?. ( Michael Fremer uses a PS 300 plus the Hydra.)

Tphalieros, if you have gone theough 4 incarnations of upscale TT's and are not yet satisifed with your sound, I'd have interest to know what is the rest of your system. Chances are it isn't the platter. This cannot continue! :-)