For most stuff millercarbon's sandbox solution will work fine. It is just a mater of making it look good. There is only one problem I can think of and that is the floor. Concrete floors are perfect for Hi Fi rooms because they are so stiff and non resonant. Wood floors however are spring boards.
More mass = lower resonance frequency = more bounce. You can really give yourself a foot fall problem this way. I have seen tonearms go airborne. With a wood floor there are only two solutions I can think of. A wall shelf which was previously mentioned which works great as long as there are not little ones crashing into the wall or a well designed suspended turntable.
The Isoacoustics platform should isolate you from that "rumble" you have noticed. It will not isolate you from foot falls. If you are on a concrete floor the Isoacoustics platform will be all you need.
Going back to turntables, the SOTA is a brilliant design actually more so than the Basis or SME. All three tables have properly designed and tuned suspensions. You can jump up and down in front of all three and nothing will happen even if you have crappy floors. But with the SOTA the suspended platform is internalized so you can bump up against the plinth and nothing will happen. When placing the tonearm I can use the plinth as a steady rest. You can not do this with the other turntables. I have both a SOTA and an SME. The reason I got the SME is that I wanted to use a Kuzma 4 point 14 and SOTA does not make a turntable you can mount this arm on. If they did I would have gotten it. The SME is a great turntable but the SOTA is nicer to use and the Macassar Ebony plinth is drop dead gorgeous. The SME is...industrial.
Having a properly isolated turntable is just as, if not more important than getting the tonearm set up dead on. If you get one of the above turntables you do not have to spend money on a special stand or shelf. You could place any of these turntables on a collapsible card table and they would work fine.
More mass = lower resonance frequency = more bounce. You can really give yourself a foot fall problem this way. I have seen tonearms go airborne. With a wood floor there are only two solutions I can think of. A wall shelf which was previously mentioned which works great as long as there are not little ones crashing into the wall or a well designed suspended turntable.
The Isoacoustics platform should isolate you from that "rumble" you have noticed. It will not isolate you from foot falls. If you are on a concrete floor the Isoacoustics platform will be all you need.
Going back to turntables, the SOTA is a brilliant design actually more so than the Basis or SME. All three tables have properly designed and tuned suspensions. You can jump up and down in front of all three and nothing will happen even if you have crappy floors. But with the SOTA the suspended platform is internalized so you can bump up against the plinth and nothing will happen. When placing the tonearm I can use the plinth as a steady rest. You can not do this with the other turntables. I have both a SOTA and an SME. The reason I got the SME is that I wanted to use a Kuzma 4 point 14 and SOTA does not make a turntable you can mount this arm on. If they did I would have gotten it. The SME is a great turntable but the SOTA is nicer to use and the Macassar Ebony plinth is drop dead gorgeous. The SME is...industrial.
Having a properly isolated turntable is just as, if not more important than getting the tonearm set up dead on. If you get one of the above turntables you do not have to spend money on a special stand or shelf. You could place any of these turntables on a collapsible card table and they would work fine.