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.
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Indran.
I had exactly the same when I put the pods underneath.
Fortunately the rack it is on has adjustment at bottom for leg height so was able to get the TT level again.
Just don't look at the rack.....lol.
@slaw 
Bass is probably one of the most personal details there is.
Everyone has their own idea of what is "right".

And that's all we can do, tune and tweak to our own satisfaction.

My meaning was that bass was reduced from previously where it was slightly overblown so it was a good thing.
Definitely a lot tighter all round in every aspect.
Pretty stoked for $33 so far!
@rixthetrick- Good question on the money... If this technology which I don't think is a huge deal goes mass-market then these footers are not going to cost more than what Nobsound charges. But that will never be the case because there would always be a market in the audiophile community for every such product at every price point perhaps more than what I can even imagine. 
What would really help me and perhaps others in such spring based isolator products are
1. These springs could be self twisted or adjusted for leveling and also for calibrating the desired spring rate. Townshend says that they have this feature but I am not sure...
2. There should be an indicator, may be a mark on the body of the spring indicating the 97-98% load such that you can calibrate the load very easily and accurately
3. The design should allow absolutely free movement of the springs in any direction

If there is one design point of Solid Tech feet that wins hands-down over Nobsound it would be the free movement of the spring (in any direction) w/o twisting or deforming it under the load.

Thanks.

Yes, Solid Tech gives more freedom of movement in the radial and horizontal planes than the NobSound on their own. You can combine NobSound with Ingress cup and ball supported on a suitable platform ( slate in my case but may be system dependant, worth experimenting with different materials) for better performance. Solid Tech, Townshend Pods, Geoff Kaits springs or kids tyre inner tube under inflated all good options to try under the platform. The Ingress cup and roller balls give you a very high degree of radial and horizontal freedom but couple in the vertical plane thus needing a spring of some kind for vertical isolation. I get extremely good results with this relatively inexpensive set up. If you can afford to spend more then take a look at Stacore Platforms. For a complete ready made solution at a reasonable cost it’s hard to beat the Townshend platforms particularly for turntables or where you use very stiff and/or heavy cables which can influence the performance of the Ingress cup and ball isolators.

Note, that if using cup and ball isolators like Ingress, it is most important to set them up in a perfect equilateral triangle on plan for best results. In some cases you may need to support the cables with sky hooks for example in order that they don’t interfere with movement.