The right footing for a turntable


Replaced the brass feet on my 401 plinth. They sat on 3 sample blocks of granite on a heavy oak table. I don't like ro spend if I don't have to. So, I had these stainless steel cone footers lying around and stood them on the granite blocks, points up and sat the 50pound plinth on those. Ridiculous improvement. The soundstage is now locked in an unmoveable focus and the center image has moved up a foot. It is the weirdest thing! A slight light-brown coloration has vanished. Bass is now absurd from the Quad ESL57s. The quality of the source has lifted the performance of all other components.

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Just to provoke some thought. You may want to see what results with two points up, one point down, and/or one point up, two points down.
I have included a link for Synergistic Research MIG Footer placement, where they claim the change in orientation of there footers results in a pin point or ambient sound stage. I'm not suggesting that reconfiguring your footers will result in the same effect as SR footers have when there orientation is changed,but instead you may find one of these configurations further improves sonics. Jut a thought.
http://www.synergisticresearch.com/new-mig-2-0-isolation-footers-with-hft-technology/

Also I am curious, do you think the effects / improvements you noticed, are a result of the points on your footers being pointed up or instead the stainless steel material. Did you try position the points of the brass footers up; assuming they have points.

Thanks for the info
Brad


Bradf, I simply have them points up as they are not attached to the plinth. I think it is the points. The material plays a part too, I’m sure. Imagine cork verses titanium! The brass footers were actually plumbing compression rings...they may be copper.

Totem, without the granite blocks the sound is not good - flabby and smeared. It is night and day. In fact, I couldn't believe how bad when I finished building the oak table. The granite changed everything. 
noromance

Thanks for the info. I have some Mapleshade footers (brass), That I have been wanting to try under my turn table for some time., hence the question referenced above.

Thnx
Brad