Dupont Corian for Isolation

Mapleshade footers (IsoBlocks) are sandwiches of rubber and cork, not maple.

Corian is nothing like acrylic. It is more like synthetic stone. From what I understand, it actually converts vibration into heat. My only personal experience is with my speakers. I have a pair of Mirage MRM-1 Reference Monitors. The drivers are mounted into a Corian front baffle. Also, the factory stands have Corian bases, and are by far the most inert stands I've ever owned.

My experience with Corian has been to reduce the feedback and vibration inherent to a piece of furniture. I am restricted to certain formats due to being married. The racks that are designed for good stereo equipment is not in the cards. I have two big amps and a cd player and pre-amp that are sensitive to vibration and the Corian made a difference.

Now thats the ticket! A local Corian installer built a couple of these for me out of scraps he had left from many kitchen projects along with some smaller fully enclosed boxes I could fill with sand and uses as chassis dampeners for on top of gear. They worked brilliantly completely slaying all previously used footers, cones, etc.

The gear resting directly on its own feet on the "floating" sandbox platform was the way to go until I discovered BDR cones, pucks, etc. The BDR products combined with my sandboxes is sonic bliss. I have a cobination of Corian and BDR under everything these days. All the front-end gear sits in Target T2 racks where the Corian sandboxes replaced the nasty Target shelves.

When asked for TT shelf recommendations, Mike at VPI suggested that I place my turntable on top of a Corian shelf, the shelf then resting upon a flat sheet of bubble wrap (packing material). I haven't tried this yet, but I might. My present isolation base setup is "a bit" more elaborate & expensive than that, but it's worth a try esp. considering the simplicity & low cost.