Raul,
over many, many tt's and many, many arm mounting designs it has been clear to me that time and time again the more solidly engineered ones sound better. and the very best have been truely robust and massive. tt's lacking mass pretty much sound anemic to me. and not just mass for the sake of mass; but constrained layered engineered designs that are also lively.
i realize my perspective and experience is different than yours. who knows why?
best regards,
mike
Dear Mike Lavigne: I don't think we are too different or with different audio experiences. Maybe in the naked TT fashion our main difference is that I heard, try and tested the naked version and I understand you did not. So, is very dificult that we can agree or even that we can talk about when you did/do not have this experience in your own system to have at least a reference to comparisons and to create an opinion with true good foundations.
How can I talk or compare or assume nothing on something that I never experienced?, with all respect: makes no sense to me. I even can't say " I respect your opinion " because you really can't have a proved opinion on the whole naked TT subject. IMHO you need to try it and you can do it very easy due that you own this kind of DD TT: just naked it ( not big deal ) and then come back and share your facts and certainly we can talk about.
I can tell you that sometimes thinking and making tests, on different audio subjects, " out of the box/AHEE " could give us very nice " surprises " way beyond any audio theory.
Btw, mep: Dertonarm and I discuss this same subject and the differences comes because he speaks about theory due that he never tested in his system the naked TT version so he don't know what this experience " means ". In the other side I made in deep tests/research on the naked TT version against plinthed ones. I can't understand how you can agree with something you have no any single idea about!!!!, this is out of mi mind.
Please read the Halcro experiences between the naked TT version against the Raven TT. I linked that post that speaks about facts and not only theory or words with no real foundation.
Btw, al over the world: Asia ( Japan. Malasya, Singapur,.. ), Australia, New zeland, Europe ( England, germany, Spain, .. ), America ( Usa, Canada, Mexico,... ) more and more persons are starting with the naked TT version and more and more persons with plinthed ones are changing to the naked version and you know what?: till today no single plinthed one that goes naked returned to plinthed.
These facts IMHO speaks more than thousands words from you, M.Lavigne, me or any one else on the success of the naked TT fashion: don't you think/agree?
Regards and enjoy the music,
Raul.