TT to another room, no vibs, better sounds?



Hi All,

A few years ago I thought I'd build a Turntable that is still about a year from being finished. The thought was mass is where it's at. If it's heavy it will take more energy to get it excited and vibrate.

After I picked up a few thousands dollars in parts my machinist asked me what I was trying to accomplish. My response was," The heavier it was the less it would vibrate."

He said, " Take it out of the vibrational environment and save money." I can do that soon and wonder if anyone else had the same thought and realized a cost effective improvement instead of spending more money on a better TT.

"Out of the mouthes of babes," Your thoughts,

ken
kftool
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I use an all horn system with 2 massive basshorns.The space between these two horns forms a funny shaped little room where my eqp is kept.Because this room is formed by the basshorns it is more of a bunker,The floor is a meter thick solid concrete as is the roof and the 2 curved walls are 18 inch brick and mortar. The door is made of constrained layers of wood and mdf and weighs more than 200lbs.

And the point of this boring bit of info? Well all eqp in there still benefit from isolation feet ,special stands and other usual measures and my Thorens Reference table still outperforms my Michell Orbe to the same degree it did out in the open.Of course the eqp does sound better thn it does when placed in the listening room.

Strangely not seeing the eqp and staring at it all the time has done wonders for Audiophilia Nervosa. The stuff is full of fingermarks,the phono stage LED died 4 years ago and I couldn't care less
Yes, you are on to something as the acoustic vibrations created by the speakers will excite all the objects in the listening space. I isolated all my equipment in a adjoining space when I built a custom media room. The results were a significant improvement in the performance of all my components. Nothing is immune to air-borne vibrations of the speakers acoustic energy. I've been working with a friend in making an 'acoustic screen' to be used around an equipment rack. Hopefully it will come to market early next year.
All of my equipment except my amps are in a closet that opens to the listening room front right corner. The closet is on the other side of one of the houses main carrying walls. This does 2 things, I can play basketball in the listening room with no effect on my turntable or other equipment and I have no feedback issues regardless of bass levels in the room.
Ah, Mafuta! A man after my own heart. There is NO getting way from my two bass horns. They easily energize the entire house. I'd have to move my table about 100 yards to the neighbors, but I don't trust them with my gear or my records. :-)

With due respect to Ken's machinist, there is much more to this than simply moving the table elsewhere. As others have mentioned there are the loses due to extended length cables, inconvenience, matching the load on the far end of the long cable to ensure the optimum transfer, etc. There are issues to address with this approach if you don't want to lose resolution. I have been trying to move to a setup more like what Elizabeth describes. However, for me that move would be to simply move the table closer to where my butt hits the chair after the stylus drops. It would be real nice to not have to walk back and forth across the room. I have worked through all issues on paper but what really holds me back is finding a 20-30' IC that will maintain the sonic presentation I enjoy now while not requiring a second mortgage to buy it.

I hear no feedback in my mass-loaded Gavia which sits right in between my horns. It may well be possible to get most, if not all, of the benefits of moving the table to another room by employing a sandbox under the table. It works very well for we Galibier owners.