N1 Turntable

I designed and built the N1 Turntable during my undergraduate years at the Massachusetts College of Art. The project was completed as a personal project outside of the core design curriculum. The design was based around the components found on a Music Hall MMF-2 turntable and strove to produce the highest fidelity sound reproduction possible.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• m. mgando
• Industrial Design
• Audiophile
• Turntable
• Music Hall MMF-2

[sweetsweatyfeet]

Fibre board is decent but not quite so non-resonant. It has a definite hollow "toc" sound if you knock on it. For best resonance dissipation, you need high mass combined with inertness. Spurious energy emitted from the stylus/groove interphase and from other sources is directed into the object of highest density/mass and dissipated as heat (Newtonian law). Thus a heavy and inert platter of low resonant signature works best.

[mmgando]

@sweetsweatyfeet

Thanks for your comment. I agree that high mass is the ideal but because I used the bearing thrust plate from the original MMF-2 (which is not design for heavy loads) I could not increase the platter's density too much.

[jrw6137]

i think that would be a nice weekend projekt^^

[bjorn2run]

Never heard of using MDF for a platter, but it makes sense because of its non-resonant properties. Good job!

[craneywatch]

Grado Cartridge was used. Sweet!

[grabngonuts]

amazing

[joey1127]

This is outstanding!

The componenets you used from the MMF-2 are just fine. They just needed to be used in a better product...as you did...the Pro-Ject arm is decent and the motor is decent as well. The upgrades you did wll show what those parts are really capable of.

Very nice!

[deadpoultry]

I really enjoyed this - very interesting indeed. Keep up the great work!