A Turntable History Question

And you could see actual rubber bands on full display?  That sounds home-made to me. Such a suspension is like a spring suspension and needs to be damped in some way, else a disturbance would linger on. Then a second disturbance could lead to oscillation. Remember videos of that bridge in Tacoma?

As far as I remember (and if my memory is to be trusted) it looked very smart and he was extremely proud of it. I didn't stay long enough to listen to it though.

I can't recall anything that was on sale in the UK at that time that used rubber band suspension.The Hi Fi Choice turntables booklet edited by Martin Colloms covered pretty much everything that was around including exotica like the Trio 7d and, working from memory I can't recall any rubber band suspended TT.

One of my classmates at engineering school in the mid-80's had his turntable suspended from wall mounts with rubber bands.  Fully DIY but effective since the floors in the old student ghetto houses where a bit dodgy.

A very smart person I used to know hung his Advent speakers from his ceiling on springs.  And yet, I would still claim he was very smart.  Smart people sometimes do dumb things.