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Outer Ring Stories
February 15,2011
Hi Larry,
Wanted to let you know the Mega Ring arrived today. Well I am going to just get right into it. WOW, this thing is amazing! First off, the build quality is top notch, beautiful looking and the attention to detail is something to be admired from close up and afar. The fit on my VPI super platter is precise and exact, with just the slightest amount of drag on the platter when placing it into position, talk about a precision fit.
Now for the sound. First let me say the I purchased your copper and nickel plated heavy ring about a year ago and I was knocked over by the performance increase in my turntable over the VPI stainless steel outer ring. When I placed the Mega Ring on the platter and listened to my favorite album, I was KNOCKED OUT! This ring is unbelievable. The sound was so pure and clean. There was a significant reduction in background noise and I always felt that my turntable setup produced a pretty quiet black background but the Mega Ring proved to me that I had more noise there than I thought. With the Mega Ring I now have an inky black background (for lack of a better term) surrounding the instrument and the singers voice. The concept so simple, get rid of the background noise and let the music play through. Simple concept but hard to achieve.
I believe you have accomplished this with the Mega Ring. The ring removes a significant amount of background noise and now there is nothing to get in the way of the music. Now all I hear is pure, clean, rich sounding music. The slight details and nuances that I kind of heard before and now very detailed and discernable. It is just astounding! I feel like I am rediscovering my vinyl collection all over again, and that's a good thing!
This is the perfect upgrade, no parts to assemble, no adjustment to make, no batteries to change and nothing to wear out. Just set it and forget it. Oh, and I won't need 60 days to decide if I am keeping the ring or not. My mind was made up after I played the first album. Its a keeper!
Larry, all I can say is, you are an amazing man who makes amazing products. Thank you.
Regards,
Ben Eckert III
Hi Larry,
Just wanted to let you know my outer ring arrived today in perfect condition. This ring is my second product from you company, first being a center weight. I am really impressed with the quality of both products, keep up the good work. And for what it's worth, I think changing to factory direct was the best move you could have made.
Sincerely,
Steve Lyde
Friday, February 18, 2011
TTWeights Audio's Peripheral-ring... a new (analog) toy or a groundbreaking adding?
Santa Claus was quite late, pals... BUT it arrived with the VERY gift I asked for... yes, for me, yesterday, Feb. 17th, 2011, was Christmas' time!
Larry of TTWeights Audio made something, after Rudolf Bruil's no more produced superb peripheral-ring, only very few workshops are able to make such a delicate, sensitive, fussy, incredibly precise "analog toy"... talking about less than .001 inches tolerances, not a trick to be accomplished by everyone!
I installed - in few seconds - the alloy-ring on one of the most "terrible" double bass discs I own - i.e. maestro Rudolph Streicher on double-bass with piano, a one-of-a-kind, one-sided disc cut in Germany at 45 r.p.m from a Telefunken's master-tape: superb music and an unbelivable dynamic range.... music by Bottesini, of course!
The large plastic mounting-jig makes it a breeze to install the peripheral ring: the Lumiere DST on the Schick at the very first grooves is only 1-2 mm from the "ring-lip" keeping the vinyl pressed to the platter itself... brrrrrr....
... but, incredibly, nothing bad happens, and then arrives the sound: full bodied, undistorted, rich, dynamic, beefy and... airy and detailed... music seems more... polished, refined, shiny.
The 301 Shindo combo is now: Shindo's platter (6,7 kilos) and leaded-cloth mat (grams 800), Micro CU-180 copper-mat (grams 1800), Shindo clamp/weight (grams 620) and TTWeights Audio peripheral ring (grams 480) = grand-total is an impressive grams 10.400 between the disc, cartridge diamond and the outer world... without considering the 45 kilos of slate plinth and the 22 kilos of bronze arm-base.
All the above "hard materials" involvement and weight could suggest a final "hard" sound... ah, ah, ahhhh... NO, definitely not the case!
... again, like it happened several times in the last months, so rich of improvements in my music system, I never, NEVER had a better overall sound - smooth and detailed, airy and beefy - from my beloved discs, period!
Maybe did I find the final recipe, the end-of-the-game analog machine?
Maybe... in the meantime, a BIG, sincere "Thank you!" to Larry of TTWeights Audio!!!
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