The thing that I am most curious about with the AF Zero is learning whether or not it will have a suspension. Ultra high mass and grounded with no suspension, or a medium mass with air suspension for the plinth, or some other design.
Do people think the American Sound table could be built today, and what would it cost?
Finally, David, Have you tried Stillpoints under the AS? Could you go into some detail about how it is supported, both the footers and the rack? I'm sorry if I missed this before.
One thing for sure AF-0 will be a high mass design, they're not going to change course after all these years. Wether it will incorporate the airbags in the chassis like the AF1 & Af2 remains to be seen.
We already made 9 pcs of AS turntable in our tooling shop for some friends in our Far East audio club back in 2002, there are even a couple of upgrades to the design. Its all blue printed and possible to do a couple more small runs. We had a lesser version designed too but that proved to be more complicated to build than the full fledged one and since it wasn't a commercial venture not worth bothering with.
I never tried any SP under any of the turntables, as I mentioned in another post above using wiggly things under these high mass tables doesn't make any sense to me. I have tried them with other components but in the end didn't find any use for them.
The AS has its own screw-in feet machined out of stainless steel, its in the picts (1st one is a close up). I haven't done any tweaks to any of my tables and they all sit on same type of Kinetic Systems lab table with their steel composite top. All air hoses have been removed, not using air with any of them.
david