Stand for turntable......


I hear a lot written about the stand for the turntable having a "significant" effect on the sound. How is this possible? I can accept that interconnects and cables may have a minor effect. But I cant accept that what the table is sitting on has an effect. Someone explain this.
mythtrip

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Your cars suspension has a rigid surface that it rides on and the cars suspension controls the irregularities in the road surface. If the road was not rigid but was continually flexing, would your cars suspension work as well?

For suspension turntables, you need a light weight, rigid stand coupled to the floor by spikes. The turntables suspension is tuned to a very low resonant frequency. Set up in this fashion they are subject to footfalls but not audio frequencies. I can't address the needs of a suspensionless table.