How to isolate turntable from footstep shake or vibration

Engineer, you say. Did they drive you out of the profession? Because all the engineers around here are the worst most tone deaf pontificators of that which does not in reality work I have ever seen. You must be a pariah or something. Welcome! Welcome to the club! The club of real world practical thinkers! Our motto: We get results! 🤣😂😁

Darn millercarbon, I am stuck agreeing. In medical school we learn to do things perfectly according to the state of the art at the time by learning from people who already do it perfectly. But, looking back at history it took a lot of baby steps to get there. Perfect is only a perspective in time. As time changes so does perfection. I am sure if da Vinci were alive today he would show you are all the places he made mistakes on the Mona Lisa. 
Being a perfectionist does not mean you are paralyzed. It certainly means you are never happy with what you do, or what anybody does for that matter. It is not a very happy place to be.

Try this.....nearly cost free.   Put a piece of wood between the wall and your turntable table....Wedge it tightly and it will work.

I used springs under my tt legs took some of the bounce out but have also wedged a board between the equipment rack and wall the bounce is gone unless someone jumps rope in the room. I think Fremer offered this as a cheap solution instead of wall mounting.

@millercarbon.

”Engineer you say…”.

I was trained as a scientist. I got out of school and needed to get a job to buy a suit and get money to move and look for a job in my profession. I was working at a start up company as a manual laborer. When equipment would break I would run over and fix it and recommend how to change it… I was board to death. The owners saw this and hired me to architect and build a prototype of a new system. I am not a stereotypical engineer… I know I have worked with hundreds of them at corporations like Texas Instruments, Sharp Corp… and others. A good way to become frustrated at getting anything done… they have to re-invent everything and make it perfect. Scream 🙀!


I worker at Burr-Brown Corp for 15 years. Don’t know if you recognize the name.. DACs, op amps, and ADCs used in high end audio. Yes, with the exception of one of them, they simply don’t believe in a difference in sound possible or their circuit could sound different… and as a consequence refuse to hear it.