Any thoughts on a solid hickory platform under my tt

Bdp24 wrote,

"Right you are Geoff. Is 180 degrees off close ;-) ? To state it again, what is needed under a turntable (or CD player, or tube electronics) is not a piece of wood (or whatever) with which to "tune" the entire LP player (what a "primitive" idea!), but a low-pass mechanical filter with as low a resonant frequency as possible (3Hz, tops). That’s what the Minus K platforms are, what the tables made for medical microscopes are, and what the Townshend Pod is."

Yes, the tried and true mass-on-spring devices are required for real isolation, Townshend was one of the very first with his Seismic Sink 20 years ago, and Bright Star had the sand box device which is a little different idea and he came out later with an air spring based stand. The super tricky negative stiffness machine Minus K used to be the Newport Corp.'s Sub Hertz Platform before it got appropriated for audiophile use. Vibraplane is still going strong after what, twenty years? What I have in mind currently is something akin to the sandbox contraption except I’m using a bed of perfect roundness diamond hardness super micro size glass spheres for more effective and rapid dissipation of energy.

Geo or bdp or anyone . 
Would this addition (feet iso ...) have any relevance if this was through headphones or at low levels ? I do not have a headphone setup i was just curious 

I have been working with methods to reduce or eliminate interfering energy which is the  result of a wave passing thru a solid material. All things in audio have these waves which are not directly of the compression type.  A reduction in the interfering wave energy results in greater amplitude of the primary wave. You cannot achieve this benefit in a so called damped or isolated system as it only generates more interfering energy. Tom 

So what do you use tom ?

theaudiotweak
1,349 posts
06-26-2016 5:13pm
"I have been working with methods to reduce or eliminate interfering energy which is the result of a wave passing thru a solid material. All things in audio have these waves which are not directly of the compression type. A reduction in the interfering wave energy results in greater amplitude of the primary wave. You cannot achieve this benefit in a so called damped or isolated system as it only generates more interfering energy."

Many isolation and damping techniques are energy conversion type systems, that’s true. But what your blanket statement overlooks or ignores, or so it would appear, is that when mechanical energy (mechanical or acoustic energy) is converted to heat (when WORK is performed using the FORCE of the vibration) the HEAT thus created is not deleterious to sound quality. I.e., heat is not an "interfering energy" as you claim, at least as far as sound quality is concerned. Sandbox isolation and constrained layer damping are examples of systems that convert (unwanted) mechanical energy to heat. Dismissing damping and isolation systems because they generate "interfering energy" doesn’t make sense. As Judge Judy says, if it doesn’t make sense it’s not true.

cheers,

geoff kait
machina dynamica