My turntable sits on a concrete paver from Home Depot. I put some squishy feet under the paver, and the turntable itself has feet that rest it on the paver. Super cheap, and seems to work well. I can walk around on the wood floors and not hear it through the turntable.
Here are two good options I’m eyeballing right now: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0749DQWND/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_o0G0BbS7HC0CF https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00009OWEE/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_K2G0Bb8T1VAFP I’m just wondering if I need 3.5” over 1.75” with the Grungebusters, spikes and Pangea stand? Overkill? The edge grain looks cooler which should improve my SQ.
I had one. It was great. I put 3 oak feet on it and chopped the protruding edge off. A cheap and effective platform.
TJ Maxx near me has 17x12 in stock. I’ll get this since everyone seems to like maple over bamboo. Any name and link to roller blocks?
I use two Lack tables, using the top only from the second, resting on a 3/4 inflated 16” bicycle inner tube in between. Lack is stiff and light with low mass which I thought would be preferable. They’re cheap enough.
I have used through the years on my wall shelf with spikes; granite, maple cutting boards, sand box with a bike tube, and the best for me is two of the Ikea boards, with Herbies feet between them. I can hit the stand and get no noise through my speakers. And, more importantly, no feedback from gut wrenching bass! Cheers, Doug
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007B2AA0K?ref=yo_pop_ma_swf https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000YB9RV8?ref=yo_pop_ma_swf Remember to buy two packs of the furniture cups to make four roller blocks. Simple as it gets and it works.
In my experience, those linked pads are worthless for a turntable. Mine are now under my washing machine, where they help a little but I didn't need them there either.
I bought a Boos Block maple cutting board on Amazon, and then used HVAC isolation blocks (exactly the same as the Mapleshade ones but around 99% cheaper because I buy them as HVAC blocks and not audiophile tweaks!). Works as a great base for my VPI Aries 3D.
I would not use the suggested cutting board. It's fine for cutting vegetables. But it also swells with humidity. So it will probably affect any leveling that you may have done. I would look at bamboo, if you want something more stable.
Maple (indeed most hardwoods) are exceptionally dimensionally stable provided they have been properly seasoned first. Which I suspect will be the case with a first rate chopping block. In NY (ie in NJ where Drew769 lives) maple changes dimension by about 0.7% tangentially (which is how a Boos Block is assembled) during the course of a year. Such a board is 1.5" thick. Even if we do the extreme though experiment of 0.7% at one end and zero at the other, and the turntable feet are 60cm apart that will mean a tilt of 0.025 degrees. Which is completely insignificant, and unmeasurable without precision metrology equipment. It is outside the capability of a spirit level. Now the fact is that the 0.7% will occur over the whole board - so any tilt will be the square root of a gnat's hind leg. Drew - go for the Boos Block with confidence. It will not screw with your levelling.
I do know not to put Ikea chopping blocks in the dishwasher, unless you want a whole bunch of warped 1" boards instead after they come unglued. Your local stone or countertop place may have turntable-sized scraps of marble or granite. Get two for their mass, and put isolating material in between, from memory foam to inner tubes, for a delicious bump-isolating sandwich.
I've the IKEA Aptitlig butcher block beneath my Michell Orbe SE as you can see in the link below: https://www.minhembio.com/GyroSE The Aptitlig is a more heavy and sturdy version, the sorbothane feet combined with the IKEA butcher block works just great.
I have a Marantz 6100 and it is springy. My floor is not the most stable either. I guess I will get a thick maple chopping board. What feet would you recommend for it?
I think I need a love button for this post. Thank you for slicing and dicing (full pun intended) through the confusion with logic. Incidentally my wife found me two more big Boosblocks at the T-Maxx. I need to check the size when I get home.
I'm at a loss with why you think everyone likes Maple over Bamboo, perhaps xenophobia or Maple looks nicer? Certainly in the UK Bamboo is being taken up by most manufactures of HI-FI stands due to it's vibration suppressing qualities. In terms of other isolation (?) tweaks I've had the chance to borrow over a extended period, roller blocks, RDC cones, Nordost Sort Kone AS and Sorbothane feet. Placing these under my amp(s) I found: A slight improvement with the RDC, roller blocks and Nordost but Sorbothane always seems to make matters worse. Using the inner tube, straw and Bamboo shelf was the biggest improvement I've every heard in 30 years of owing my current system. But the way it opened up the whole sound revealed: Roller blocks were giving a slight smearing and hard edge to the sound. Nordost didn't improve the sound and perhaps made it worse. I'm currently using the RDC cones as they still give a very slight improvement. I'm using the roller blocks under my speakers to great effect, I can't remember the name of the roller blocks but they had very good reviews in the Hi-Fi press and cost around £150 for six.
I can't quite tell from the pics or the IKEA site - are all of the sides angled or just one or two? Thanks...
I never let my equipment come into direct contact with Sorbathane. I think it just kills the sound. However, I have used sorbathane under the platforms that the equipment sits on with good results. The Herbie's products are interesting. Much more neutral sounding than sorbathane. As far as my own preference of maple over bamboo, the maple sounds warmer than bamboo in my system. I suspect that my system may be more sensitive to these types of changes due to our 100 year old suspended wood floors.