Turntable isolation feet help
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Nevermind I read your previous post , maple cutting board spray painted . Where did you get the cutting board from ? Link to where you got it ?
Audiofreak71
cafe latte
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Problem is the plinth in the pic is now twice as big due to the spikes. Without getting too technical energy cant be created or destroyed it just moves to another form. Example electricity when you turn the light on becomes light and heat. Now vibrational energy from music enters your plinth and the slab under it coupled by spikes. The hard slab transmits this energy very well indeed up the splikes almost unhindered to the turntable plinth and on to the cart.. Now substances like Sorbothane are excellent at damping vibrations, but what does this really mean? What it means is Sorbothane is good at transferring that unwanted energy to a form that is not a problem ie HEAT. The Sorbothane wobbles with the vibration but wobbles reduce and heat is made all good for what we want. The big slab looks nice but to get the beat from it you need Sorbothane footers under the pucks under the spikes.I have a Denon DP 1200, I have mine on spikes....
need to dust obviously...
Chris
WaynerN
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I just finished a nice base for my Empire 598 last week, using a 1 x 16 x 3' long maple plank, cutting it in half and making a 1 1/2" thick platform for under $20 (wood from Menards). Platform ended up 1 1/2" X 16" X 17 1/2"
The Empire basically has no feet, rather 4 hard rubber bumpers on the bottom corners of the wood base. Under the maple , I have 4 adjustable Audio Technica footers that I have had since the 70s, they work well because they are height adjustable.
Hopefully this could give you an idea.
Oh, yeah, the "W" is for "Wayner" and its the "F" for Focal speakers, turned sideways, its a W.......
Here are the feet in a current auction: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Audio-Tech...182798?hash=item5462396a4e:g:nWcAAOSwKX9biBoO
The Empire basically has no feet, rather 4 hard rubber bumpers on the bottom corners of the wood base. Under the maple , I have 4 adjustable Audio Technica footers that I have had since the 70s, they work well because they are height adjustable.
Hopefully this could give you an idea.
Oh, yeah, the "W" is for "Wayner" and its the "F" for Focal speakers, turned sideways, its a W.......
Here are the feet in a current auction: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Audio-Tech...182798?hash=item5462396a4e:g:nWcAAOSwKX9biBoO
preston1000
Active Member
That Audio Technica link you posted is the one that got away while I was at work.
So, I got impatient and made a temporary fix, got really tired of messing around with shims to adjust the turntable.
Just some furniture feet. I had lying around and used a t-nut that I flattened out with some pliers. Drilled OD of t-nut and used a small amount of epoxy to glue t-nut to the bottom of the underneath plastic cover. I couldn't use the existing holes as some of the circuit boards would of been too close to threads when all the way lowered. So I put them in a different location closer to the outer edge. Underneath the wooden feet are made from some old flip flops for isolation and it seams to be working.
It works great for leveling the turntable and goodbye sibilances, thank goodness.
Thanks to everyone that had replied with their advice, it will be taken into consideration if I feel the need to once again, find a better mod.
So, I got impatient and made a temporary fix, got really tired of messing around with shims to adjust the turntable.
Just some furniture feet. I had lying around and used a t-nut that I flattened out with some pliers. Drilled OD of t-nut and used a small amount of epoxy to glue t-nut to the bottom of the underneath plastic cover. I couldn't use the existing holes as some of the circuit boards would of been too close to threads when all the way lowered. So I put them in a different location closer to the outer edge. Underneath the wooden feet are made from some old flip flops for isolation and it seams to be working.
It works great for leveling the turntable and goodbye sibilances, thank goodness.
Thanks to everyone that had replied with their advice, it will be taken into consideration if I feel the need to once again, find a better mod.