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What is under your TT, cheap islolation?

I am looking for a way to isolate my turntable without using a shelf bolted to the wall. I am trying to save money while I re-configure the room. For now my turntable is on top of my stand but you have to tip toe around the room. I am wondering if a big rock iso platform (or DYI version) or some iso nodes under a butcher block would help with the bouncing turntable? I have two tables I am testing at the moment, one is a Thorens TD-160 & the other is a VPI HW19 MKII, both of them suspended. The floors are pretty sturdy, it is a dedicated room over my garage with serious supports built in to the floor.
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davehrab
380 posts
 
You wouldn't need any isolation if you had a set up LIKE MINE

Make sure your volume is on
uppermidfi
277 posts
 
Dave, you are crazy! That's the funniest thing I've seen in a long time! I was LOL!
mdconnelly
133 posts
 
My turntable is on a built-in shelf that is OK but footfalls could be heard. Short of tying the kids up in the attic whenever I wanted to listen to music, I went to a local shop that installs granite kitchen countertops. After wading through their scrap yard, I picked up two slabs about 1.5" thick and had them trimmed to 18x22". They essentially gave away the scrap and only charged me for trimming and polishing (about $50 if I recall correctly). They look great and really do help to isolate the table.
eldartford
4,262 posts
 
I don't know why people continue to have problems with TT vibration. Mine went almost completely away about thirty years ago when I got an Empire TT which had two features of interest. (1) The platter and the arm moved together on soft springs. (2) The arm was mass-balanced around all axes, with VTF applied by a clock balance wheel spring.
I would expect that more modern and expensive TT would be better than the old Empire.

Now I have a Sony PS-X800 TT which has a linear tracking biotracer (servo'd) arm, and it also shrugs off vibration, and plays even badly warped LPs without any problem.
blue_strat
25 posts
 
Have had this experience with my Ariston 11-S, (like an old Linn) after I removed it from the wall. The other folks who responded are correct. It's the Floor. I put the TT on top of the Target turntable shelf,6 vibropods in the middle, and a black flakeboard shelf on the bottom. This vibropod sandwich rests on my stand. Results were good. I like the Granite Idea. Also, I installed 2 lollycolumms under the 40yr old woodfloor which really helped. Walking softly right in front of the stand also helps.
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