Ommmmmm. Of course you would ask me that! My wood blocks I was using on my old shelf (and when I say old, I mean like 175 years old!!) don't fit on my new shelf, so my turntable is sitting on the ground, which is OK, because the ground is a concrete slab over 300 tons (literally, don't ask) of crushed rock. My old Thorens TD150mkII sounds best in this configuration sitting directly on the floor on its little rubber feet. The bass is from middle earth somewhere. In my rather flexible old wardrobe, my CD player, table and amp all sounded better supported with cones on a large wooden slabs that were isolated from the actual shelf (purely home brew) as described above and in the images from Mapleshade. If you have a concrete basement floor resting on a large mass of rock, I might recommend trying your turntable or disk drive on their stock feet sitting right on the floor. I haven't tried my amp in this configuration. If/when I reconstitute old setup, will post photos.
On the draining of resonance.....
I have read of the importance of controlling resonance in components that contain motors and transformers. This seems to involve placing isolation points or bearings under components to attract or "drain away" micro vibrations, I suppose, of resonating frequencies. Ok--say this works, but hasn't the resonance already occurred as it is being drained away through the bottom of the chassis? I get the idea of isolating out airborne vibrations carried by the rack, stand, plinth, block, etc, but......really?
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