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Schick Plinth for everybody !
Feb
Most vintage turntable users are (quite) obsessed in finding the best plinth available for there precious turntables. Common materials to deal with resonances and vibrations during record playback are mostly : wood, stone, metal or the very fashionable corian. 
Thomas Schick decided to go his own way. His main axis of research was effective damping. What is effective damping? Something in-between too much damping and not enough damping seems to be the most serious answer. But what about sound?
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| Manometer at the back of the turntable to adjust air-feet pressure. |
In fact the material used for these plinth was designed for measurement equipments used in high-tech laboratories. One of the major goal of this compound is that it is extremely stable and does not change of behavior and shape with temperature and hygrometry changes in domestic conditions.
To allow a perfect combination of your turntable with the Schick plinth, each plinths are made on request to fit perfectly your turntable. For instance it is nearly unnecessary to screw a Technics SP-10 mkII to the plinth as it just slips perfectly in place and is already firmly held. Of course using screws to fix your turntable is still even though highly recommended.
I have been using one of these plinths for my own Technics SP-10 mkII turntable for a while and even though I had tested a few plinths with it (original Technics in obsidienne, Finland birch plywood, slate) and I was not prepared for such a change. Backgrounds are deeper, more silent and music is lively, natural and yet still full of details. This is, with no doubt, the greatest upgrade I have done with my turntable.
