I’ve just bought a £15 IKEA bamboo chopping board. Don’t know if it’s going to work, but if it doesn’t it will find a useful home in the kitchen. No problemo.
they do work. its quite subtle, like a 1.5 or 2 out of 10. i mentioned earlier that it was not good with my pre. muddied it up. easy to tell. worked well under my amps. made my towers sound grainy. different components need differing solutions. so have fun playing around with it.
A concrete floor ends a lot of problems. My table on a wall mount and why more people dont do it drives me crazy!
Nice, please report back with your findings! I have a bamboo board on a mousepad piece on the top of my amp
Have you ever used Maple Shade products? They have been around for a Long Time! Air-Dried Maple Platforms & Component Stands Beautiful Solid Maple racks and platforms.
I would like to try one very much, but unfortunately it is not on sale here in Europe, and importing is too expensive these days...
I wonder if I buy this AVID Volvere, do I "still" need some isolation ? Well when I have it ... at first I'll listen to my records without any isolation. AVID Volvere SP Turntable
You can just make a recording with turntable off and tonearm on the rest as a baseline, then another recording with stylus on the record without it spinning and no music playing as an environmental baseline, then repeat with music playing via digital source at your normal loud level. Then compare the spectrums to see how much above the environmental baseline you get with music playing, and try some isolation methods and check results. Something like below... left is baseline with arm in rest, middle is stylus on record for env baseline, and right is with loud music playing in the background with cover on (cover off was about the same). In my case, the breakthrough is mostly through the floor and equipment rack in the 50-300Hz region. This was before I added some isolation between the table and rack to reduce some of that breakthrough, and through the phono preamp, hence the rising bass due to the RIAA curve ...
Used Isoacoustic Gaia's under my floor standers. Better than no isolation, but no better than the cheap and cheerful Auralex subdudes. The Gaia's offer quite a bit more bling.
My hifi rack used to sit on a suspended floor. I bored holes in the floor, slightly bigger than the circumference of the rack's legs and now the legs rest on the concrete foundations of the house, isolated from the room.
These Soundeck Minis are working for me, which is great because you hardly know they are there, visually.
I had feedback issues with bass when I had a VPI Super Scoutmaster turntable, completely eliminated by using a Gingko Cloud 12S platform for the table. Cloud 12S – Gingko Audio My speakers sit atop Stillpoint Ultra 5 spiked feet. Ultra 5 V2 - Stillpoints
One will work fine, two with ball bearings (in the juice channel) keeping the two boards separate works better.
Just placed another order with Herbie’s. Also own ISO Acoustics stands and SVS Sub feet. IMO sound isolation is the simplest way to improve the soundstage and accuracy. Also great for bouncy zones like floating wood floors.
Just placed an Audiophile Base ( version 2) platform under my Gyrodec SE to really good effect, shame this company are now defunct as their products really did work, so now you pick up their products for a decent price. As @Tim 2 said earlier one cannot have enough isolation.
