TW Raven Owners: Set Up Questions


Through the magic of sweet talk, I turned my Orbe into a Raven and mounted my Graham 2.2/Benz LP.
I am looking for a isolation base for the Raven. I have a 1 3/8" piece of granite coming soon so I can ditch the MDF I use now (a temp. meas.!) Symposium, SRA, HRS, etc., can anyone share their experiences with isolation bases? I saw the thread about loosening the Stillpoints.
Initially I had an issue with using the rough side of belt. The belt shimmied up/down on the pulley at a specific spot on belt. Also, the speed fluctuated and I could never get it dialed in with the PSU. So, I went to the smooth side of the belt and then raising the back side of the motor (unscrewing one of the isolation feet) slightly moving the belt down from "center" on the pulley. This moved me from 33.2 to 33.3 and I have no more belt shimmying and the speed is rock solid.
I'd appreciate any tips/tricks etc.
gerardff
My apartment has solid concrete floor with tension
cable runnig through them.
This is called a
'prestressed' concrete floor and is designed to allow greater spans between
supports, with thinner floor thicknesses.
It is achieved by reducing the amount of steel reinforcing in the slab and
substituting steel cables (within permanent sleeves) which then are post-
tensioned.......after the concrete has initially cured.
It essentially pre-cambers the concrete slab so that the 'dead load' brings it
back to horizontal.
These slabs are becoming more like 'membranes' and because of the spans
they allow.....can actually bounce?
With the right equipment one can hear the structure 'singing' or 'moaning'?
They are possibly the worst type of floors on which to mount audio
equipment....particularly turntables?
If the outer brick wall is non-load bearing.....it must be supported either on
the floor itself or a concrete beam structure spanning between supporting
columns?
If the latter.....it is less prone to movement than the prestressed floor and
fixing a wall-mount shelf to it (as close to a column as possible)....will be
preferable.
I am very confident that 3-5 Shakti Stones below, Shakti Online, teleportation tweak, liquid ceramic cables, clever clocks or brilliant pebbles will raise the table far above ultimate level.
Ebm, it's engineering and Halcro sounds like an architect. I understand about these prestressed concrete slabs. They are thin, and do flex, but they don't break under the design load. Think of a very hard, yet bouncy web. I imagine that they could even ring under certain loads.

Suteetat's apartment floor slab does not at all behave like a thick concrete slab on the ground. Whether or not a wall shelf would be better in his situation, I can not say.