While playing with a broken hard-drive this morning, I noticed that I could not force the two magnets together, very strong stuff obviously. So I thought about making a platform for my turntable - sort of levitate it. Before I go breaking a couple of more hard-drives, has anyone ever tried anything like this. Any thought on how the strong magnetic field will affect the cartridge, motor, signal processing?
Currently I use a massive butchers block sitting on four 8 inch OD inner tubes with four more tubes on the four sides keeping the block from hitting the cabinet walls. The tubes are all interconnected to a single valve for keeping the pressure the same in all 8 tubes. Now I want to levitate my Music Hall MM5 above that with these magnets (all just for kicks).
Or any other component for that matter too!