Springs under turntable

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?

Rix, a turntable suspension is just a simple mechanical filter. The trick is setting it up so it is stable. As for subwoofers the trick is to give the driver a perfectly solid enclosure with an infinite mass. Not so easy. Put your hand on your subwoofer enclosure while playing something bass heavy.
Any fibration you feel is distortion. That vibration is either from the enclosure walls moving or the entire subwoofer moving. In most cases it is both. Ideally you should feel nothing. You can not isolate a subwoofer from the house. Bass is insanely powerful. Put on a 30 Hz test tone and turn up the volume. Your entire house will sing at 30 Hz, glasses, plates, pictures, the walls, your teeth, everything. Fortunately for us our brains can only pay attention to the loudest noise. With music and the satellites running you can't hear it. If you don't want to hear your car rattle, turn up the radio. The medical term for this is "masking"
I had an older S5 V8 with a manual. It was hands down the prettiest car Audi ever made and a very satisfactory daily driver.