Springs under turntable


I picked up a set of springs for $35 on Amazon. I intended to use them under a preamp but one thing led to another and I tried them under the turntable. Now, this is no mean feat. It’s a Garrard 401 in a 60pound 50mm slate plinth. The spring device is interesting. It’s sold under the Nobsound brand and is made up of two 45mm wide solid billets of aluminum endcaps with recesses to fit up to seven small springs. It’s very well made. You can add or remove springs depending on the weight distribution. I had to do this with a level and it only took a few minutes. They look good. I did not fit them for floor isolation as I have concrete. I played a few tracks before fitting, and played the same tracks after fitting. Improvement in bass definition, speed, air, inner detail, more space around instruments, nicer timbre and color. Pleasant surprise for little money.
noromance
@mads
I was also looking at trying the custom made feet from these guys,
Stick with springs. Sorbothane has a bad rap for sound quality!
mijostyn
Uberwaltz, you REALLY need a Schroder CB on your Avid ... It is the most perfectly designed pivoted tonearm in existence
It is? Do you own one? Have your heard one? Tell us more.

@mijostyn - 
If you like old sports cars you will love Vinyl. If you only drive Audi's stick with digital.
I want to buy an S5. For real.

Isolating a TT with a wood peer and beam construction would be a daunting task for me. Most of my experience with isolation was from work and at a loudspeaker factory in Australia. Where my former employer sells speakers with spring isolation built in as standard feature. I have since done quite a bit with various subs and speakers etc.

I am fully out of my depth with TT isolation I am afraid. I did mention isolating the loudspeakers which I do have experience in, because I would assume a non isolated TT would certainly receive energy from a full range loudspeaker through the floor.

The hardcore mad scientists like noromance and mahgister for example who just dang well give it a red hot go, inspire me too. 





Hello,
I got the delivery of Solid Tech Feet Of Silence footers this AM. The delivery was lickety spilt, all the way from Sweeden and I didn't have to pay any Customs duty for this purchase. The footer design was excellent ad it does move in all directions as advertised. I have just installed three footers underneath my Clearaudio turnable and listened to it. The sound was ok without much adjustment. I have to do the load adjustment tomorrow, which is really the key and see if it addresses the footfall issue. If it does then I have found a commercially made spring isolator which isolates above 2-3 hz at least in the vertical direction. I would keep you all in the loop,
Thanks.
@indranilsen Hopefully they'll sound better tomorrow. Thing is, they are a lot more expensive compared to the Nobsound at $35. How do they compare to them?