@chakster ,in no way can you compare studio or commercial equipment with consumer Hi Fi. The environments are totally different. There is no bass under 50 Hz in FM broadcasting. As for mastering, at the point the master is sent to the lath there is no music in the room. If anyone is listening it will be via headphones. These lathes can be far from perfect. I have some records the rumble is intolerable, bad lathe. The lathes are big, very heavy and complicated devices. They are far from perfect.
In terms of high quality reproduction in residential situations it is difficult to argue against suspending a turntable. If done correctly the result is a far more stable device with a much lower "noise of all kinds" floor. Any user of a suspended Sota, SME or Basis turntable will wholeheartedly verify this. he AR XA was such a landmark because with a little clever thinking and design it handily out performed all the commercial tables of the day.
So much so that others like Thorens and Linn started copying it and idler wheel tables disappeared. Look at the current crop of ultra expensive turntables, the Basis Work of Art, the Air Force One, the Dohmann Helix.
All of them are suspended in some fashion.