Thanks - that's the same table I have. Good to know it works well.
Looking for turntable isolation advice
Greetings from Oregon,
Was hoping to get some suggestions on turntable isolation for my particular situation. My setup starts off with two strikes against it - suspended wood floors in my apartment and the turntable between in the speakers. Neither is ideal, but that's the room I have. As it's an apartment, structural changes are out of the question. I have a VPI Prime on the stock feet, which are a nice step up from the feet on the Traveler that I had before, but I'm not sure about their ultimate performance.
For my stand, I am using two heavy duty (about 70lbs. each) Sound Anchor speaker stands facing each other with a 4" maple platform on top of them (with blue tack between the stand and platform). The stands are spiked into Herbie's gliders. I find that all of my stands sound better on the gliders or generally decoupled from the floor. The speaker stands are only about 10 inches wide but the platform is 24"x19", so it's probably not the most stable set up. I'm getting good sound, but I know that the table is still subject to some vibrations. I'd like to get advice on anything that I might do to better the performance of the table.
I've considered some the following:
1). Aftermarket footers for the table, possibly Stillpoint Ultra SS.
2). Better spikes on the stand - Gaia, Stillpoints, Track Audio, etc.
3). Paving stone under the stand
4). All of the above
5). A wall shelf. This would be a big task as the table weighs close to 60 pounds. The only commercial turntable wall shelves I've seen hold 40-80 lbs. max weight, and I'd like something that is rated much higher to be safe. I guess I could try a DIY project. Would love to get the maple platform on brackets on the wall, but that would bring the weight over 100 lbs.
So, any thoughts would be welcome. It's turntable only rig, so I'm trying to wring every last ounce of performance out of it.
Thanks so much for any insight that you might have.
Cheers,Scott
Was hoping to get some suggestions on turntable isolation for my particular situation. My setup starts off with two strikes against it - suspended wood floors in my apartment and the turntable between in the speakers. Neither is ideal, but that's the room I have. As it's an apartment, structural changes are out of the question. I have a VPI Prime on the stock feet, which are a nice step up from the feet on the Traveler that I had before, but I'm not sure about their ultimate performance.
For my stand, I am using two heavy duty (about 70lbs. each) Sound Anchor speaker stands facing each other with a 4" maple platform on top of them (with blue tack between the stand and platform). The stands are spiked into Herbie's gliders. I find that all of my stands sound better on the gliders or generally decoupled from the floor. The speaker stands are only about 10 inches wide but the platform is 24"x19", so it's probably not the most stable set up. I'm getting good sound, but I know that the table is still subject to some vibrations. I'd like to get advice on anything that I might do to better the performance of the table.
I've considered some the following:
1). Aftermarket footers for the table, possibly Stillpoint Ultra SS.
2). Better spikes on the stand - Gaia, Stillpoints, Track Audio, etc.
3). Paving stone under the stand
4). All of the above
5). A wall shelf. This would be a big task as the table weighs close to 60 pounds. The only commercial turntable wall shelves I've seen hold 40-80 lbs. max weight, and I'd like something that is rated much higher to be safe. I guess I could try a DIY project. Would love to get the maple platform on brackets on the wall, but that would bring the weight over 100 lbs.
So, any thoughts would be welcome. It's turntable only rig, so I'm trying to wring every last ounce of performance out of it.
Thanks so much for any insight that you might have.
Cheers,Scott
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