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Support table or shelf for turntable

I was hoping to replace my oak table with either a wall mounted shelf of a heavy steel table.
The reason is that I am finding that the oak is picking up and transmitting vibrations to the turntable, a Garrard 401 in a birch ply plinth. I am hoping to move to a slate plinth and wanted to maximize the support strength and reduce feedback.
Here is a link to the shelf and here is a link to the table. Both examples of what I'm looking at.
Shelf would be mounted to concrete wall. Table would stand on concrete floor.
Thanks.
128x128noromance

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kennythekey
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noromance,
I love your Eico monoblocks! I just gave my daughter my Eico ST-40 integrated. However, not original so heavily modified.

Anyway, I'm moving towards the decoupling approach for my gear as mentioned by geoffkait and others. I've had tremendous success using decoupling springs with my subs to solve mechanical feedback issues through my turntable.
Kenny
kennythekey
580 posts
 
I used the Townshend Isolation Bars under my subs that killed the mechanical feedback coming through my floor and up my rack into my turntable. Before, a loud oscillating wobble sound, but after the Bars, nothing. I am pretty sure that the mechanical feedback, plus whatever other seismic pollution is also coming up my front wall as shown in the video link above.

Putting your turntable on a wall is definitely going to be an improvement over suspended floors. My daughter who's an architect with zero audio experience, told me that there is a lot going on in my front (bearing) wall. This was after I had the idea to tie my rack to the front wall for extra stability.

This makes, placing your turntable in another room on another wall a reasonable solution if that's what you can do. For me, I'm working towards adding isolation pods to my TT, amps, line stage, and phono stage.
Kenny

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