With modern day turntables, the platter is often made to be with no ringing or resonances. But also, every section of the turntable is made to very high tolerances with isolation of noise, reducing of friction, and damping of resonances.Daithi wrote:So a dead turntable would be preferable to a live one?Marco Gilardetti wrote: The technology deployed in gramophones tells us that engineers at least tried to do something to dampen resonance and halt soundwaves mechanically propagating through the machine's body. The felt covering the turntable and the rubber isolators between soundbox and tonearm are the most evident ones. They clearly show, in any case, that they considered and tried to put a limit to issues concerning resonance.
I figure that there is not enough sound fidelity for resonances to matter that much in a gramophone but I don't know. If you look at the average gramophone, these were mass produced and not precision made machines. There is motor noise and vibration that makes it's way to the turntable or platter. Regardless of that, the short tonearms of most gramophones introduce considerable tracking error on records, and it can be heard during certain dynamic passages where a lot of distortion or sibilance comes through.
If you look at the EMG and Expert gramophones it looks like they took considerable measures to make precision machines and the tonearms are longer, I would assume to decrease tracking error. I wonder if their platters ring. It seems they took a lot of considerations into the sonics of their machines, and if they damped their turntable platters I guess that would give credence to it having a positive effect.
Sorry for the long reply!
Jonas