I've built the same turntable using different materials for the plinth. Also made cones, footers, shelves and racks using different materials. After a while you gain enough experience you realize you can get a pretty good idea what something will sound like simply by tapping on it. The sound it makes when you hit it is the sound it will impart to whatever you build out of it.
MDF is so widely used not because it has such fantastic vibration control characteristics. Its used because of its unique combination of features. Mainly, its affordable, available, uniform, easily and precisely machineable, and has reasonably good sonic qualities. Build the same thing out of solid pine, oak, teak, or any species wood, and compare to MDF it will be apparent each wood has its own character and all of them together have much more character than MDF, which is comparatively neutral and benign.
Chipboard is something I have never tried simply because it is so obviously a worse material than just about anything else. Cardboard, maybe, would be worse. Soggy MDF. Sheet rock. Whatever material you could find that is even less uniform, with more voids, less stiffness, and more impossible to shape with any degree of accuracy.
But hey, go ahead and try. That is after all how most people learn.
What I really am curious about though is where in the world you ever heard of "good-quality good old fine-grained chipboard"?
That to me is such an oxymoron it almost makes me think you might just be a troll?
MDF is so widely used not because it has such fantastic vibration control characteristics. Its used because of its unique combination of features. Mainly, its affordable, available, uniform, easily and precisely machineable, and has reasonably good sonic qualities. Build the same thing out of solid pine, oak, teak, or any species wood, and compare to MDF it will be apparent each wood has its own character and all of them together have much more character than MDF, which is comparatively neutral and benign.
Chipboard is something I have never tried simply because it is so obviously a worse material than just about anything else. Cardboard, maybe, would be worse. Soggy MDF. Sheet rock. Whatever material you could find that is even less uniform, with more voids, less stiffness, and more impossible to shape with any degree of accuracy.
But hey, go ahead and try. That is after all how most people learn.
What I really am curious about though is where in the world you ever heard of "good-quality good old fine-grained chipboard"?
That to me is such an oxymoron it almost makes me think you might just be a troll?