Where is Your Turntable?

Believe it or not, I once toyed with the idea of constructing a sliding track with a 3" maple base which would slide back and forth through the wall between my music room and the adjoining room. "In" to change the record and "out" when spinning. A sliding door in each room would be closed depending on current position. Maybe in another lifetime.

Mine is between the speakers and behind them, directly in the middle on a light weight, rigid stand. Take a look.

Funny you mention the other room option. That is exactly what happened to Ivor before he designed the LP12. It might not be your cup of tea but you gotta hand to the man for raising the bar of analog playback.

I don't need a bunch of acoustic treatments but will be making some very similar to yours 4yanx. Glad I took a look.

Mine is on the side wall behind the speakers, with interconnects as short as I could reasonably make them. I intentionally chose not to place the turntable rack between or immediately behind the speakers on the theory that soundstaging might be compromised, but I've recently heard several systems in which such "behind-and-centered" configuration has worked out quite well.

Turntable and rack are of the high mass variety, floor is suspended wood floor over a crawl space with multiple floor jacks increasing the rigidity of the flooring under the turntable and the speakers.

I also have toyed with the thought of the turntable being in another room for isolation, but the interconnect length that would be needed has always dissuaded me.
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sitting on a 40 lb of soapstone and aurious bearings, on a heavy baltic birch slab, to one side, behind the speakers, in the system photos.

My TT is located adjacent to my listening position on the long wall with other source equipment, my preamp and some LP's. Amps are between the speakers on the short wall. Other LP's are shelved with CD's on the wall opposite the electronic's. TT sits on a high mass stand on a wood floor of 2x6" T&G sub flooring and a 3/4" T&G hardwood floor. Very well suported (2x12" planks on 12" centers). Turntable is isolated from the stand by alternating layers of wood and sorbothane. Works quite well - the only down side is a 25ft run of I/C's from pre-amp to amp.