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Re: "they still don't know why great violins sound great"

The last option is, of course, the best, your search for materials would be over and all your concentration would be in finding vinyl! My own "Destroyer Lenco"/Rega/Denon, or Ode to the Denon DL103, is going through birth-pangs in my garage. Your heat-sink analogy is quite good! But not quite right as it misses the "immovable object"/neutrality idea (think "lump"), but still pretty good. Experience and descriptions of acrylic turntables abound and they all share in the same characteristics: acrylic is a comb-filter, emphasizing some frequencies and eliminating others. No amount of CLD will recover the eliminated frequencies, it seems to me, though a perhaps a hump at the precise correct missing fequencies (or alternately a suck-out at the emphasized frequencies) will cancel out the loss, but God how will you determine this? Or as a friend of mine put it: "They'll never make a good sounding plastic violin," and let's face it, "acrylic" is plastic. This would fall into the fading concept of "common sense". After you finish your next plinth, float it down the river, if you can find a river with the same chemical signature as Stradivarius' river ;-)!

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