I built my own Turntable and here are the results

Great effort congartulations. What actually made you do it?

Can't see it was to save any $$$ in the process :-)
Axel

Lewm, Atmasphere,
the first thing I noticed by the way ---- but then do we want to get that critical?
We are not on Fm_login's site after all :-)
Axel

Hiho, Lewm,
very much agreed to say it again.
In fact some designers speak about 'closing the loop' (of resonance) and I guess just what Hiho mentioned.
Axel

Back to separate arm pods - from Oolong, ho'.
Firstly, both the arm-pod and the tt has to be 'hard' connected to the surface they stand on - plus it better a as level as it gets.
Now you have the issue with platter and arm-pod standing un-damped on a hard surface --- not so good at all, or?

The hard-connected tt will need to stand on some pretty well functioning damping platform, so does the motor too, and the arm-pod? - Too - and separately damped?! This starts too look pretty tricky now.

I think this separation-scheme is looking for trouble, never mind just getting pushed over or only just moved out of alignment. And nothing said about the motor-pod yet, standing on the same resonating slab as the arm pod?!

Greetings,