Enjoy your birthday Douglas.
Judging by those “side” dishes you have both good taste in music and music that now tastes good!
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Fantastic, how creative this is. All the best and your wife must be wonderful.
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Happy Birthday, wow that looks to good to cut. You certainly have talented people who care a great deal about you in your life! You my friend are blessed!
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Happy Burthday. Cake looks fantastic.
Did it improve the SQ?? 
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I have a Revox B795 with AT 540ML cartridge through a rega phono 3.
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How did it sound ? (The cake).
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A very sweet sound, warm and fluffy, magnificent musicality due to dark layers of goodness.
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Yum!
Perhaps one should now invent cake-based turntable mats? 
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Liquorice turntable mat .
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I respectfully disagree, but they can be very entertaining for sure!
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That sounds like the equivalent of slapping one in the face with a gauntlet in days of old when Knights were bold.
Nowadays…glad you are enjoying it😁
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Bit romantic for me, a lovely deck but I prefer the blood and thunder of a direct drive.
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I had the Oracle in my office for some extended fettling but it was taking up too much space, so I went a bit auction crazy and got a new player which takes up somewhat less space.
The new AT VM530NE cartridge was more than the rest of the kit but I never trust the stylus that comes on a used turntable and didn’t want to try and source a replacement for the Shure that was (naturally) on there at sale.
It’ll get a strip down and rebuild/upgrade at some point, but for now its ability to stop me in the middle of work and just listen is impressive.
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Somethings for a Xmas stocking.
Also, this -
Another thing-
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The old SME 2000 plinth is up and running with the 401, 312s and a slab of copper.
Hopefully the result will be something like this when it’s finished.
A new plinth within the existing one is the plan. Keeping the vintage look and adding more mass to avoid resonances. Now the plinth sings like a sitar.
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Lol
And that’s why I dropped my 401 in a solid slab of Baltic Birch…30lb of mass helped that problem!
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I have a Mofi Ultradeck with Hana ML cartridge and Hegel V10 RIAA
Not had LP since CD came, but must admit I love the new setup now!
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Not cheap but if you want mass for your Garrard.
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I do not have a turntable. I found this video interesting since it takes a different approach to isolation of vibration.
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