Sota Sapphire and Isolation?

@lewm Interesting.  I guess I’d think this may still be at least worth a try because the SOTA’s feet are not spring loaded and thus physically separate from the springs located within the ‘table itself so it’s not directly springs on springs.  I’d actually think if the spring footers can reduce vibrations getting to the springs in the SOTA’s suspension that could be a potential benefit.  Anyway, they’re only 29 bucks and can easily be returned to Amazon so no risk to try, and especially with tweaks like this you really never know til you try — kinda like cables.

Try it both ways, but if you can deal with the ascetics consider a wall mount TT shelf centered above the bookshelf unit your components rest on.

DeKay

Soix, your reasoning is faulty. The substructure of the SOTA that sits on a shelf can be considered for our purposes to be part of the shelf. The platter, bearing, and tonearm are still suspended from springs. If you then add a base that itself is spring supported, you introduce an independent resonance to the system. The two different spring rates and resonant frequencies will likely cause problems

Interesting question. My intuition says springs on springs would make for interactions and very different resonant frequences which sounds like a bad thing. But I don’t know the physics in great enough detail to be able to say for certain and I have never tried it.

The only thing I can say for certain is my sprung Linn LP12 benefited greatly from the Silent Running Audio Ohio Class platform I had made for it. That platform does not use springs. Great combo. Unfortunately it costs sbout the same price as the table.

@lewm  Ok, fair enough.  But the shelf itself still vibrates, which is why people use isolation devices on a shelf, under a cabinet, etc.  The question then becomes which is worse, the vibrations from the shelf or the potential resonance from the spring footers.  That’s not knowable until you try, and since there’s zero risk again I ask, why not?