Dedicated Stand for a Turntable ? Opinions.

I've looked into but have not constructed something similar to the SRA craz rack. Using solid center cut air dryed timbers with dovetail joinery, I priced out the cost of inserting titanium rods into each 4 legs and two cross members. Then injecting those tubes with a viscoelastic material. This is quite possible with very little "real" building knowledge.

Then I am planning on routering the edges of the inner top shelf, inserting aluminium brackets into each corner and threading stillpoints onto the brackets as they already have a threading possibility biolt into their bottoms.

On top of the stillpoints, I plan on placing a 3" piece of soapstone. This combo ought to effectively reduce footfall vibrations. The last part of the process which I have not figured out is what footers to use for the base of the table. Any suggestions welcome.

I priced this procedure out at just over a thousand with the stillpoints being the most exprensive part at around $300.

I tried a wall mount in an older house with good results, however,when I moved the walls were not great for drilling holes and I opted for the Clearaudio MontBlanc turntable stand. I use a Transrotor Apollon fully decked out, three motors and 80 mm platter with outstanding results. Vibrations or room acoustic feedback are the least of my problems with this setup. It has an acrylic shelf that sits atop a brushed stainless steel 3 pillar stand with cement or something heavy filled inside. Weighs almost 300 lbs I think. Add the 100 or so from the turntable and 400lbs of mass are on the floor.

The analogroom has one on display in San Jose. I have a pic of that stand in my sig picture gallery, Area 51.
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Audioquest4life

BIlly Bags Pro 35 Turntable stand with an SRA custom VR isolation for my galibier
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my last table was a Nottingham and it was on a target cage mounted on the wall (reinforced with ply)

Suspended from the ceiling has worked for me, the turntable , that is.

Bob P.

A manageable diy dedicated stand project might be the rack that member Sbank built for himself. It is similar to the Walker Audio dedicated stand for the Proscenium turntable, but without the additional mass loading of the Walker rack. Here are some links to:

Photo of Sbank's rack
Materials list (from Sbank's systems page

Photo of Walker Audio dedicated rack 1
Photo of Walker Audio dedicated rack 2
Photo of Walker Audio dedicated rack 3

I've been very pleased with the Walker Audio rack here, and Sbank's similiar implementation has worked well under his VPI TNT-6.
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