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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..I will look for some load more dense and compact than concrete..... :)
Bars of gold bullion perhaps?
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The real problem is subwoofers. You have a significant mass vibrating +- 2 cm.   Any vibration of the enclosure is distortion. This is for any speaker, if you feel the speaker vibrating you have distortion. Putting the speaker on springs will make it worse. Fixing a heavy mass to the top of the speaker will lower the frequency it vibrates at, get it low enough and it becomes insignificant.  This does nothing for cabinet resonance, vibrating panels. This is avoided by thoughtful design.
Bars of gold bullion perhaps?
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Not at all, petrified old heads will do.....

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Putting the speaker on springs will make it worse.
This is not my ears impressions...

I know my ears are biased.... :)

This does nothing for cabinet resonance, vibrating panels.
2 set of springs boxes instead of one with small difference in load on them will damp the internal resonance...It is very audible... Audible immediately in the naturalness of timbre.....

I know my ears are biased.... :)


mahgister, You may hear what you say you hear, but the phrase "damp the internal resonance" as a mechanism for what you hear is unclear.  In other words, as is so often the case in this hobby, we have a phenomenon on one hand and a hypothesis on the other, and we marry them often without much evidence.  Can you say how a mass on springs placed on top of a cabinet can "damp the internal resonance"?  I do believe that just placing a  mass on top can lower the resonant frequency of the cabinet, but why the springs?