Turntable sound bad

Narrod, Stringreen, you are probably both right in that rigid feet make the table much more dependent on the resonant signature of the piece of furniture that the table is sitting on. In my experience, I have never heard anything better than the stock feet as well, but that does not invalidate Stringreen's assertions that, in his system, on his furniture, there is an improvement with non-compliant mounting. However, given the complaints that the poster has, I would be looking at the feet. And the arm/cartridge match, and the alignment and probably the step us as well. The Denon likes to see a transformer for MC gain and does not seem to cotton to head amp gain. Methinks the whole setup is pretty wrong.

Agree with Narrod and Viridian on both cartridge alignment and the arm/cartridge match. Here's a link to the HiFi mod . Mandatory reading for most Rega/OL tonearm owners IME.

Antiskate needs to be checked after you are certain the table is 100% level. Use a test record with a grooveless section. Be certain the arm will float with neutral weight to the spindle and to the arm rest, thus checking the bearing laterally. Clean the records well and the styli....jallen

Based on the OP description it's highly unlikely anti-skating is the culprit.

It seems like a simple case of mis-alignment.

Thanks for all of the response. I am confused I thought that spiked feet, where only 1000ths of an inch is touching should isolate better than the sorbothane feet. I am using a Musical Surroundings Phonomena for my phono stage, set to reccomended settings from M.S. rep. I have read that the Denon cart was a good match for the Rega arm. I will try the re-allignment of the cart first, for I do believe that might be the problem. I will let you know the results.

P.S. I do believe that the table sounded the same with the stock feet, but I will do a comparison to see if there is a difference.