Help! New TT skipping badly....

Switch back to the other brands. Simple.

Chakster, TT is setup properly. what's odd is I can drum my fingers on mable slab while playing, it's fine. I can drum my fingers on plinth of table while playing, fine. Just can't walk past without skipping. Floor is very solid and rack very stable, so I guess it has to be the floor.  So my next question is, does anyone think removing spikes from rack will do anything? Pain in the ass but I will probably break it down and try this tomorrow. Appreciate your responses, minus bubba12.

Yes, the floor… that is it. The standard solution is a wall mounted shelf. People in apartments and upstairs the world over have been doing this for decades. Don’t get wrapped up in conversations about suspended tables and other stuff.

I had an AR turntable with a suspension forty years ago and it skipped with footfalls (suspended wood floor), although I could wrap hard on the table or cover and it would not skip. I owned a VPI Aries for over twenty years and it never skipped (concrete under the flooring).

Already provided two solutions- three, if you want to count springs under the rack. Which you seem to not have read anything I posted. One more try.

The problem is not the floor. If the floor was so unstable then you would have had problems with those other tables. The problem is the frequency of vibration going up the rack into the table is right in a range this particular table is unable to handle.  

The solution is springs. Thanks.

when everything looks like a spring….every spring looks just like a hammer…

 but thank God there are real engineering firms in the USA close to you that specialize in isolating this and more. For example Johnny who you know, carries HRS, turntable bases start just north of $1k. There are others, you have many choices of excellent TT and other isolation.


 A quick ? unipivot on any of the other TT ?

eyeball the cuing lever spacing, Use a light, 140 g thru 200 g LPs


Nick did your setup ? excellent man and his work ethic superb. Listening to a high resolution file of a TT he setup, Cello to die for….but it sounds like he setup at shop and you transported ? Was he aware of the skip issue ?

A wall mount ( source thru Rega dealer or online ) is a couple of hundred bucks….i know $$ but….  

level ? try to level the table with feet screwed all the way up and then down .25 to .5 turns. you may have feet extended into an unstable range.

removing rack spikes unlikely to help, most likely make it worse…35 years of experience w Linn ( selling against them but fixing others work , whenever i did that i took along a loaner SOTA Sapphire….few came back… )

Finally you got excellent advice on temporary relocation of the table, you are not testing sonics just skip. Corner in tight best spot.

hope your frustration level goes down

jim