Damping Rega Table


I have found that even though my Rega 2 table sits on a hard tiled floor,it still resonates quite a bit and sends "tapping" on the plinth right through the speakers.I am considering using "Brown Bread" bitumen sheets under the plinth,as soundproofing.Is this a viable or stupid idea?stefanl
stefanl


I had a call the other day from Rega superstar,Roy,
who knows which way is up."Hello" said Roy,
who is nobody's fool.
After chewing the fat for several minutes Roy,
who doesn't beat around the bush said
"I'll come straight to the point".And he did.

To cut a long story short the upshot of it all was that Roy,
who never taught his grandmother to suck eggs,
asked me,
who knows nothing from nothing
to produce a leaflet that would be of absolutely no use
to anybody, and this is it.

Apparently punters are forever phoning him
asking for leaflets that would be of absolutely no use to anybody.
And you,dear reader,
appear to be one of them.Which just goes to show.

You see, my mate,Roy,
on whom there are no flies, has a very interesting point.
He says that it's his job to make the product as well as is humanly possible,
and the dealers job to sell it
and to look after his valued customers.
There's no answer to that,is there?

The fact is that if you pop down to your local Rega dealer,
who it must be said may well be a hundred miles away,
you can actually listen to the the thing in comfort
with any available system(even your own if you wish).
You can then judge for yourself
and you might even get a coffee.

If you can't hear why you should buy a Rega
don't buy it.

And you can't listen to a leaflet anyway.

- Rega promotional brochure from the early-80's -
Having considered my immediate options I put together a slap-up job of a 2inch concrete slab on pointy rubber feet as an isolation platform.Should I later try sorbothane feet on this? It is quite heavy and might be too much weight.stefanl
An alternative to sorbothane feet are the ribbed rubber cork centered footers sold by Rcreations on Audiogon at a bargain $10 per set of four. Using three footers avoids wobble of the platform being supported, and you can check with this vendor if your concrete slab weight is within the capabilities of these footers.