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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You can throw those Nobsound springs away. Bad design

Bad design for subs? They work great on my very heavy turntable. The thread is about springs under tuntables. Not subs! So in that context, the Nobsound springs work well.
I would have to agree that I am pretty impressed with how well they seem to have worked under my 401.
And the large SQ change that was easily audible with just a simple spring configuration change.
Hard to complain at $33........
So many thanks indeed to Noromance for bringing this thread to the forum.
Noromance, bad design for anything. If you could get them down to the right resonance frequency they would wobble all over the place. People were also discussing the use of springs under subwoofers and I expressed my opinion that it is not a good thing to do.

As far as Bass is concerned, everyone should have a pair of good head phones. Forget about the image but focus on the sound and detail. This is the bass you should hear out of your system ideally. Using a record with an acoustic bass solo to compare is ideal. If you like pushing the lower frequencies louder as a matter of taste well, that is up to you but you will sacrifice some detail. 

Indranilsen, You have to level the turntable with a record on the platter and yes it always matters. Perhaps not as much with a pivoted arm as with a tangential tracker but still. You may also want to adjust the feet so they all bounce together if you can. Lock the tonearm in it's rest. Push the turntable down stretching all the springs to their limit and let go. The springs that bounce fastest are farthest away from the center of mass so move them a little closer to the center of the turntable. Try to adjust them so that they all bounce together at the same rate. The games we children play. 
I think that using prings under a turntable must be very delicate indeed.... And it is not the same at all than under speakers....

These nobsound MUST be adjusted near 1 % of optimal compression....For a turntable it is way much delicate and refine adjusment necessary even about the structural properties of springs themselves more than for speakers....

That explain some difficulties with springs under turntable....

Under my speakers they are fantastic at the express condition to be very adjusted.....You cannot do that in one or 2 trying....

Beware of much clarity in the sound....The first clue that all is OK come from a better timbre accuracy not clarity only.... I made this error the first listening, i concluded too early that all was ok.... I corrected the load a couple of times and when the tonal accuracy was there all was positive on all counts.... No trade-off....