Hockey pucks under turntable: worth trying!

My TD-124 is sitting on a fairly lightweight Ikea table, which is probably made from compressed sawdust under the genuine artificial woodgrain veneer.

Being an idler-belt drive hybrid design, this turntable generates a lot of vibration, even though I have it in a layered plywood plinth.

Just for the heck of it, I put four hockey pucks under the rubber feet; the improvement is NOT subtle. Bass is significantly tighter and better defined, transients are much more impactful, and everything is crisper and more resolved.

I won't claim that hockey pucks will make a difference in every system, but they are cheap enough to be worth trying out and seeing if they make a difference.

 

Did you use these by any chance?
I know they were not needed this year.

 

You surely have this all wrong @redmetalmoose .......nice try fella! These obviously were collected from behind Tukka all year, heavy discount out there for slightly used pucks....."Get your goals against Tukka pucks here!"

Wicked bad year for them......I am on the fence though about Claude being let go - system of his works, when followed to a "T" - but I think the NHL has evolved that unless perfect it's going to be beaten. Patrice - Selke #2???

 

Nice looking system there @action pact - we have some new folks here in the office, some larger folks, and when they walk to the copier outside my door I am getting more vibrations then ever. First time I have ever had this problem. My TD-166 has some upgraded feet already but still skips here and there when they come by. I ordered some cheap sorbathane half moon style feet to try to absorb the vibrations. $14 bucks I hope well spent.

If they fail I will try the pucks.....my neighbor floods his back yard every winter for his 2 kids, both who are hockey phenoms locally, and he also has his teams for practice here and there. There are usually 10-20 in my yard every spring when I do my clean up.....I just will keep the best 4 and throw the rest back next door!

 

I already use hockey pucks to decouple my speakers from the floor. This looks worth a shot.

 

Wouldn't it be preferable to couple the speakers to the floor? That's what the spikes are for. That way the cabinets are stable when the drivers are pumping.

The pucks probably do a good job of protecting your floor though!

 

I think the "Bench Cookies" may be too low of a durometer. They are certainly worth a try if you have them, or can borrow them. I would guess the softish top and bottom pad would either crush or get spiked, depending on your TT feet, and then you would be on the hard plastic media of the main puck.

 

If you want quantity discount look to the Toronto area, take advantage of the currency difference.

 

A cheap solution can be a good solution and indeed a lot of stuff in audio seems to be a cheap solution with a nice bit of packaging and very high prices to SEEM like it's good. $2000 for an amp stand or $7 for four hockey pucks. My 121lb amp is on hockey pucks cause it would probably break most amp stands.

 

Yeah, I guess I shouldn't complain too much.

 

Boooooo....
Hssssssss....

 

I've used hockey pucks lined on both sides with self-adhesive 3" furniture felt pads (perfect fit) for years under an IKEA butcher block onto which my TT was placed. Like you already said....the difference is sound was NOT subtle and the improvements in overall presentation are astonishing for the investment made.

 

Not being much of a hockey enthusiast, is a puck a puck? Especially for audio vs. athletic purposes?

This four-pack seems perfect for people using them in non-rink applications: http://www.amazon.com/Sports-Hockey...8&qid=1430148185&sr=8-4&keywords=hockey+pucks

 

Wouldn't that be a four-puck?

 

Genuine artificial veneer, I like that expression, ha, ha. Reminds me of a phrase I heard when I worked in Africa. Street sellers would try to sell fake wrist watches claiming that they were "first copy".

 

A puck is a puck - however, the NHL ones are kept frozen - so best to get a game used one for the Cryogenic improvement!

 

No burn-in required!

 

Great - good deal for you. Could be so noticeable because the table was not doing a good job of keeping vibrations from your TT.

 

Is this method endorsed by Don Rickles?

 

Do you really want non hot-stamper hockey pucks to rest your turntable on? Tsk, tsk.

 

I use pucks under my turntable as well.
Also use squash balls cut in half under my CD players.
I think both have helped, at least a bit.

 

A man after my own heart. I never fly without some foam on my walls (wife's aesthetics be damned!)

 

Excellent point, and that's exactly why I said, "I won't claim that hockey pucks will make a difference in every system, but they are cheap enough to be worth trying out and seeing if they make a difference."