Well, I friend of mine came into a large supply of NIB and very slightly used Sonus Formula 4 unipivot tonearms. I have been selling them on Ebay for about a year and a half, wanting the whole time to try one out. I mentioned that to a prospective buyer and he offered to give me some TT parts in exchange for a tonearm that needed some repair. The parts were from a solidly made Sansui DD table from the late 70's. The motor/platter and electronics were in good shape but the rest of it was trashed. I know that in many audiophile circles direct drive is not approved of but the price was right so I decided to have a go. I spend about a month thinking about what to mount the motor and arm to. MDF, some exotic hardwood or plywood, some sort of contrained layer sandwich? I though of using Corian. Its quite dense, I think it is as vibration absorptive as MDF and much easier to get an attractive finish. I wanted black but since it is used mostly for countertops it is sold in rather large pieces which are pretty expensive. I found a place on the internet that sold Corian cutting boards and would make you one any size you wanted (up to some maximum) They didn't have black but they did have some fairly attractive color options. I bought one 14 x 17, ($62) polished it up a bit, made an oak base and here you see it. I still have some prettying up to do on the base and I have to decide whether I want to mount the electronic board inside the base or put it in a separate box with a cable running to the TT. The Corian plate will sit on some soft polyurathane vibration isolators that I bought from McMaster Carr. I will either use the stock Sansui feet or maybe buy something else. Haven't decided that yet either. I just ordered an Ortofon 540 from Juki to put on it. Not sure what I am going to do with it when I am all done. I love my CS5000, but I guess a man can use two TT's. I think I will hook it up to my PC for a while and dub my favorite vinyl to CD for listening in the car.