@mijostyn the rubber feet seem to be blocking more frequencies than the mass loading spiked feet on my turntable as well as the solid steel rack. Works for me!
Butcher Block Acoustics
I wanted to give a sounding shout-out to Butcher Block Acoustics. I placed an order Saturday and expected to receive the turntable isolation platform in the next few weeks due to some of the lingering shortages. Nope. Same day shipped and pickup by USPS (on a Saturday!). Item arrived in two days as being in the same state and safe as can be. I can't believe I was looking to upgrade my cartridge and preamp before giving turntable isolation even the slightest of a shot. I figured my Solid Steel S3 rack had things handled... I was thoroughly wrong. Absolutely 100% wrong. Isolation is such a fantastic upgrade and the 3" Butcher block with simple rubber isolation feet have gotten me to where I need to be. Thank you Butcher Block Acoustics crew!
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@clearthinker , the earth is not a solid ball. In actuality is is more like a pile of sand, water and molten rock. Sound waves travel right through the ground and your concrete slab. As any New Yorker what happens when the trolley passes by. You can feel an earth quake miles away from the epicenter as it travels in low frequency sound waves right through the earth. Put your stylus down on a stationary record, turn the volume up and watch your woofer. Jump up and down and see what happens. Hit the cabinet your turntable is sitting on with a soft mallet and watch what happens. Have somebody open and close your garage door while you watch. "Assumptions are the mother of all F--K Ups." I am far from the only person who understands this. Standout personalities that do were/are Edgar Villchur, Mark Dohmann, David Fletcher and A.J. Conti. Suspended tables are inherently more complicated, engineering intense and expensive. Throwing a lot of mass at a turntable is the dirty way of going about things and it does a good job placating lay intuition. I know a gentleman who had a footfall problem with a Kuzma Stabi XL DC. He cured it by placing the rig on a MinusK stand. My guess is you do not have a foot fall problem but plenty of other low frequency rubbish is getting through. Anyone with sub woofers playing vinyl knows this for a fact. Most of the rubbish is on the record but, some is not. Very little is coming from our modern belt drive and direct drive turntables. |
My former house had suspended floors and I had terrible footfall problems. The only way I got rid of them completely was with geoffkit’s Nimbus system with springs. He is a nut of sorts, but damn if that thing didn’t work. Footfalls were gone, absolutely gone. I still have the springs but don’t currently use them. |
I love mine. I'm thinking about upgrading the rubber feet to Sorbothane. I found DIY isolation foot kits kit here, Turntable Phonograph Vinyl Record Player lsolation Feet – Mnpctech |
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