A Copernican View of the Turntable System

I use just 3 tiptoes Chris.
Rigid de-coupling like spikes are far easier to ensure levelling with 3. With 4 you'd probably find that only 3 are making solid contact.
With isolators that use rubber or other 'giving' substances, 4 can often make contact if you want utmost stability ie if you don't want it to tip if you lean on it?

Chris,

As Raul and Halcro suggest, three seems the magic number. They have obvious advantages in making things level and stable (as with the tripod in general) and you can easily adjust the height of each individual AT616.

Hope that helps

Thx for the responses - I use three as well - spiked mapleshade spikes and am very happy with them. Will look out for the 616's to try out when they come up for sale.

@Ct0517: the guy I bought my AT 616 from is selling the smaller AT 636 right now. May be worth getting if you don't want to wait for the others to show up.

Halcro,

I'm having difficulties with the spiked stand-alone arm column. In my system, it definitely increases the bottom end and lower midrange but I feel it does so excessively. The cost of these elevations seem to be a loss of air/acoustic layering and refinement. However, they gave greater impact on certain percussive instuments and so I need to find a middle ground.

I'm still playing with this and will try a mix of the spikes and blue tac approaches to see if I can tune in the necessary accuracy in tone and staging.

The fun continues...