Isolation Advice Needed


Hello, moving to a new home later this summer. The new house has suspended floors (wood over crawl space). No noticeable bounciness or floor deflection but so far I've lived in homes with concrete floors, so walking on the floor was subconscious activity. In the new house my steps are louder when I walk. So not sure what to expect when I setup my system in the new house.

I have all tube system housed in a Salamander rack. Any forewarning of unwanted vibrations creeping into the system and ways to mitigate them is greatly appreciated.

 

Current System...

Rega P6 (Audiomods Series VI/Shelter 501)

Aesthetix Rhea Sig. tube Phono

Graaf GM-50B Tube integrated

Wilson Benesch ACT Speakers (with Gaia II feet)

 

Best Regards

 

 

livin_262002

Don’t go crazy if you don’t have to. We had a house in Westchester, NY that was made entirely of concrete. Floor, ceilings, etc. Circa 1911. I think concrete has improved since then. But I didn’t even bother to do a serious system in that house; I was "on the road" for some years, traveling between Scandinavia and the US, Florida and West Coast. Great years for me, professionally, but I took a dive on two channel in favor of home theatre back I the ’90s and early oughts. Now I’m back!

The big Minus K, which is what I have, will stop ’em dead. I’m not shilling. Believe me. The Minus K folks could only provide me with support up to a degree. When I wanted to do two tone arms-- implicating two thirty pound pods for support-- they weren’t interested in doing the math. I talked to a friend at CMU and a few other people, including a famous reviewer and an engineer at Penn State who was doing gob’tment work. I concluded that the Minus K was not suitable for a load that did not have a center of mass. But, I’m happy to be corrected. Right now, it’s cool, with only one arm; others may have different results, depending on situs.

Barry Diament, who did a number of pretty famous remasters, suggested a bicycle tire in an enclosure (if you want to get fancy); there are commercial variations on this, including obsolete stock from Townshend. You float the turntable on air. 

I have a problem in that the automatic -re-up (Vibraplane connected to an air compressor) might change the balance of the turntable. That is peculiar to my system, given the Airline arm (which needs to be aimed "downslope" to do its "thang"). :) Feel me? :)

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I'd suggest a number of concrete piers to support the floor. If your builder can't or won't do it, you could add hydraulic jacks. Suspended floors bounce.