Gregadd: You solved the problem by avoiding the problem. That is, you purchased a real turntable with real engineering behind it. This is not to say that it is a perfect machine, but that it had taken far more steps in the right direction than many of the alternative designs on the market. Both back then and now.
As to weighting down the floor, the results would vary with how much weight was added. I guess that there would be some type of reasonable trade-off between reducing floor-borne vibrations and muddying up the presentation. I ran into this when changing racks and the only weight added was the rack itself. Given that i went from a rack that weighed less than 40 lbs to a rack that weighed in at appr 170 lbs, there was no way for me to experiment or fine tune exactly how much "mass loading" i should use. The end result was that once i got rid of the massive weight of the rack, the sound of the system came back to normal. Sean
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As to weighting down the floor, the results would vary with how much weight was added. I guess that there would be some type of reasonable trade-off between reducing floor-borne vibrations and muddying up the presentation. I ran into this when changing racks and the only weight added was the rack itself. Given that i went from a rack that weighed less than 40 lbs to a rack that weighed in at appr 170 lbs, there was no way for me to experiment or fine tune exactly how much "mass loading" i should use. The end result was that once i got rid of the massive weight of the rack, the sound of the system came back to normal. Sean
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