Isolation for turntable


I have been thinking alot lately about isolation componants for my TNT JR. Have looked at Bright Star big rock/ air mass and Symposium products. Just wandering what your guys would recomend and also other manufactures that might compare to these. Thanks David
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My TT is nowhere near in the league of yours, but my shelf is similar: a Synergy Twin 40, with the TT placed on the double-width top shelf. These racks don't really qualify as primo TT support, to say the least - of course they have their other virtues, relatively speaking, but although not horrible by any means (especially compared to Salamander's Archetype series), the adjustable frame is far from maximally rigid, and the MDF-core shelf is fairly resonant. In my system, I use a Symposium shelf placed underneath the Technics SL-1200 'table, supported by four FoculPods soft sorbothane footers sitting on the rack shelf. This has worked well for me, but my TT's built-in suspension presumably is not as effective as yours. With this arrangement, physical energy inputs to the rack's frame or the shelf are greatly attenuated when felt at the Symposium, but I have honestly never sonically compared this set-up to placing the TT directly on the rack shelf. Although I don't think you can really go wrong using some kind of non-resonant shelf, such as the Symposium or one of the others, you may also have to experiment placing it on hard footers like cones in order to avoid excessive motion resulting from multiple soft suspensions. But whether you'll get an audible improvement over your non-problematic current set-up, probably only trying something out for yourself will tell.
Of course, those advocating the totally rigid approach to TT support are also presumably disinclined to prefer an integrally-suspended TT at all, including the TNT Jr.'s own self-damping compressed-elastomer based system - which is apparently correctly pre-tuned to do the job it seems to be working fine at in David's set-up. As I said above, I wouldn't necessarily recommend adding any additional compliant support to his TT, especially since he reports no feedback problems as is.