Where is Your Turntable?

Mthieme, RE your ringing granite shelf: The rubber buttons are making the ringing worse. A little tip: when you put a heavy material like glass or granite on a another surface or shelf, place a sheet of thin 1/16" foam between them (you can find it anywhere they sell packing supplies.) It mates the two surfaces together uniformly and damps out any vibration between them.

Glass and granite do have a high frequency sonic signature and they need to be uniformly damped/mated to a substrate like wood (or even another slab of granite!) which is accomplished easily with a very thin sheet of foam. It would be even better to spread a layer of contact cement and laminate the two surfaces together, but that gets a little messy as a DIY project, and foam gets you 80% there.

Neil

Thanks Neil,I think you are right, it probably does resonate because of the rubber suspension. The granite seems to weigh about 80 lbs, and if it was completely coupled to the next layer I bet it would be quite dead. I will try your fix first since I already own the granite. I've read several threads lately that seem to imply that platforms with some "spring" like wood absorb,drain vibes better than high mass materials like granite. Timbernation.com has some beatiful racks that caught my eye however.

About 1 foot behind and inside of the left speaker. Not ideal in anyone's book, but it's all the room allows.

We had to make a functional, decent looking living room, leave the fireplace exposed, include the audio system AND a 43" widescreen. All this in a 13 x 17 space. Now that was a challenge.

It took me two months of shuffling furniture and equipment around (on my computer screen, fortunately) before I got a layout that worked... more or less. There isn't a spare cubic inch anywhere, yet it doesn't feel crowded. (Of course I'm pretty skinny!) Even the cats have room, and the sound in the sweet spot is actually quite decent.

Mine is around the corner, in another room, so I could avoid locating it behind the speakers. My speakers are located in my living room, which opens into the dining room. However, there is about a three foot deep wall that runs perpendicular to the long wall shared by the living and dining room - basically a small divider. It is behind this small wall where I have stashed all of my electronics, table included. The table sits atop a rack, whose feet are positioned over joists. Overall I think it's pretty well isolated.

Mine is between the speakers, on top of a Boltz rack that has LPs at the bottom. The table itself is resting on four neophrene rings (borrowed from an old Wadia CDP I had some years back).