Sota Sapphire and Isolation?

Obviously isolation can be hit or miss but can almost always help once you find the right type.  You can shoot the lights out and pay up for something like a Townshend Seismic product and almost certainly get a significant improvement, but it comes at a price.  Alternatively you could just try something like this on the cheap and see if it works and if not just return it to Amazon, so why not?  Several people here have used these to good effect.  Just a couple thoughts to ponder, and congrats on the excellent new ‘table!

https://www.amazon.com/Nobsound-Aluminum-Speakers-Isolation-Amplifiers/dp/B07K9ZYP84

Never combine springs with springs. The SOTA is already spring suspended.

@lewm Interesting.  I guess I’d think this may still be at least worth a try because the SOTA’s feet are not spring loaded and thus physically separate from the springs located within the ‘table itself so it’s not directly springs on springs.  I’d actually think if the spring footers can reduce vibrations getting to the springs in the SOTA’s suspension that could be a potential benefit.  Anyway, they’re only 29 bucks and can easily be returned to Amazon so no risk to try, and especially with tweaks like this you really never know til you try — kinda like cables.

Try it both ways, but if you can deal with the ascetics consider a wall mount TT shelf centered above the bookshelf unit your components rest on.

DeKay

Soix, your reasoning is faulty. The substructure of the SOTA that sits on a shelf can be considered for our purposes to be part of the shelf. The platter, bearing, and tonearm are still suspended from springs. If you then add a base that itself is spring supported, you introduce an independent resonance to the system. The two different spring rates and resonant frequencies will likely cause problems