blue collar, Where do you live? Are you in a large city, in an apartment, out in the country, in a private home? Is your system sitting on a well supported floor? These are all factors that enhance or diminish the role that isolation can play in enhancing your results. For example, obviously having a turntable in a basement of a private rural home sitting on a shelf that rests on poured concrete over solid earth is not going to present much of an isolation problem. Note, I did not use the word "suspension"; I used the word "isolation". (And I notice you did too.) That’s what you need to seek. Spring suspension done wrong or inadequately can do more harm than good. Likewise, it is usually not a good idea to use two springy or rubbery elements under one turntable. In other words, don’t put a TT with an internal spring suspension on top of a shelf that is supported by springs, for example. The two different spring rates can wreak havoc.
Can a turntable ever have enough isolation?
I have a Pioneer PLX-1000 turntable mounted with minnesota pc tech feet sitting on top of an ISO acoustics ZaZen II platform. My phono preamp and all tube preamp are on 3" maple butcher block acoustics block on spikes. The amp is on 1 3/4" Maple butcher block on spikes as well.
Thinking of trying something different under the amplifier like iso pucks or something. But anyhow on to the point I would then have a nice beefy large 1 3/4" maple butcher block I could experiment with adding to the turntable isolation. Directly under the turntable on perhaps the rubber feet on top of the ISO acoustics platform or the entire setup on top of the butcher block itself.
Appreciate any thoughts on this. Thanks.
-Chris