Getting granite tomorrow.


Making an isolation platform for my Acoustic Signiture TT. It is 18x24. I have this materials. Granite slab 1 1/4 thick. 2 MDF boards 3/4 thick each, Cork one inch and 2 rubber truck liners 3/4 inch thick and 8 wooden buttons for support. I was going to put MDF boards on bottom then rubber then cork and last granite on top. Is this the best order? Or should I make 2 sandwiches out of materials? Also If I dont use spike cups for TT will I crack the granite or damage the spikes? I though it may make a better isolation or do you think it would matter. Any opinions appreciated
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The lack of responses may be due to your confusion of basic concepts. You said you're trying achieve "isolation" yet you've assembled a pile of mostly non-compliant materials that will provide little isolation to speak of. Either the goal or the materials must change. Which is it to be? We're so easily confused by randomness. ;)

Granite, mdf, wood buttons, spikes and spike cups are essentially non-compliant. Non-compliant materials and devices provide COUPLING, which is the precise opposite of ISOLATION.

Your massier items (granite, mdf, the TT itself) can contribute to isolation but ONLY if used to optimally mass-load some other compliant material or device (like springs, an air bladder or sorbothane).

Those rubber truck liners are probably compliant and might provide some isolation, but only if optimally mass-loaded. How thick is the rubber? What are its compression and rebound characteristics under various loads? With that information a mechanical engineer could estimate the optimal mass loading for greatest isolation at various frequencies. Without that information you're reduced to trial and error. You may end up with a Ford Focus on industrial-grade truck shocks (BOING!!!), or a 3/4 ton pickup on Ford Focus shocks (BONK!!!) or... you might get it just right. :)

What are you trying to isolate the TT from anyway? Forget the random pile of stuff. Identify your problems and goals and appropriate solutions will present themselves.
Three BDR cones would probably support 2,000 lbs., but for basic technical questions the manufacturer's website or help line is usually a reliable source.