TTOuterRing - Turntable Periphery Clamping Rings
The TTOuter Ring is machined from solid COPPER providing ground breaking vinyl performance. The source of the Music is the VINYL and everything else is dictated by the accuracy of the information extracted from the vinyl.
The raw blanks are machined from COPPER the most musical/dense and stable material, with super precision machining of the outer lip and designed to locate on the LP’s outer edge and a special centering disk is included for centering on smaller outside diameter and other problematic records.
The Sound
The outer ring will provide dramatic improvements to the records imaging and sound staging. The Outer Ring can be used alone, but the use of a TTSuperClamp or other center weight product is highly recommended. The absolute peak performance will be gained when there is no free play or movement from the vinyl itself. The Outer ring and clamp essentially locate the vinyl directly to the mat, significantly reducing distortion even with worn record grooves.
Warped Records
THE TTOuter Ring will reduce and remove the warp in most warped records expect for the most extreme. If the record is more than 3/8 of an inch warp the ring will flatten most of the warp but they may still be unplayable. Caution is advised.
TTOuter Ring reducing high frequency noise caused by microscopic vibration that causes the stylus to “hear” sounds that are not there, this causes listening fatigue. The true high frequencies can be extracted from the vinyl essentially cleaning up the distortion caused by a vibrating the record groove. Play only what is there in the groove. The TTOuterRing provides smooth and accurate sound across the listening spectrum. The quiet passages are beautiful, less background noise, less tracking and VTA errors create awesome dynamics.
Stylus Clearance
The top surface of the ring is less than .010 higher than the LP surface providing excellent clearance for the Stylus on the entry groove of the record with manual and automatic turntables.
High Mass Density COPPER
The Outer Ring is machined from solid Copper with a specific weight 3 times higher than stainless steel. Stainless rings will resonate (ping/ring) while copper is very dense on a molecular level and does not share these problems. You may ask why the Outer Rings have not been produced in Copper.
The answer is simple, dense and stable COPPER 1/8 to 1/4 inches thick from 12.5 to 13.5 inches in diameter and extremely thin walled areas make the machining extremely difficult. To make a ring this size, perfectly flat and concentric, we use advanced water cutting CNC’s and MULTI AXIS CNC Lathes and each ring is produced by a senior Aerospace Machinist. The rings are flat and concentric within .002 - .004 maximum, average .002 over the entire ring, not an easy task.
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