The right footing for a turntable


Replaced the brass feet on my 401 plinth. They sat on 3 sample blocks of granite on a heavy oak table. I don't like ro spend if I don't have to. So, I had these stainless steel cone footers lying around and stood them on the granite blocks, points up and sat the 50pound plinth on those. Ridiculous improvement. The soundstage is now locked in an unmoveable focus and the center image has moved up a foot. It is the weirdest thing! A slight light-brown coloration has vanished. Bass is now absurd from the Quad ESL57s. The quality of the source has lifted the performance of all other components.

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Setting aside the suggestions to anchor the table to bedrock, as a newb, I would appreciate some commentary on my current setup and whether I should employ some tweaks to optimize it. 

My system is in the basement  - wall to wall carpet over concrete slab floor.  All of my system components are housed in a Salamander Synergy 303 cabinet - the combined weight of the cabinet and equipment (including TT) is about 200lbs.

The TT is a Music Hall MMF 9.1, which has a freestanding motor and sits on three conical, adjustable feet that come to a very sharp point.  The TT feet sit directly on the top of the Salamander Cabinet.

I cannot discern any obvious issues due to vibration transmission, but that does not mean there is no impact on TT performance / SQ.  Any recommendations on inexpensive tweaks to (hopefully) improve isolation / SQ enhancement.  Drilling to the center of the earth is out of the question (for now).