Turntable on suspended floor - shelf or braces?


My setup is on a suspended floor over a crawl space.

I'm about to finally buy a turntable (Rega RP6 or RP8) and am going to have to to address the bouncy floor. I set up an old Thorens just to try it out and there is a severe foot-fall issues (who knows how bad other vibration will be).

Looking for suggestions on whether I would be better off to put the new deck on a wall shelf, or if I were to reinforce the floor itself?

The floor is over a crawl space with a few feet between the joists and the dirt, so I could easily install 3 or 4 jack-type supports that would bond the floor to the ground.

Does anyone have experience doing this? Would I be better off with a supported floor, or a wall shelf?

Thanks - djm
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Showing 1 response by altaylorwood

Sounds like you have the right idea and bolstering up the floor in your case by jacking it up from beneath would be easy to do.
I think a wall shelf would be best unless you have cabinets or something else on that wall that would themselves cause vibrations when accessed. But jacking up the floor beneath that wall will make that wall even more stable. And if you decided against a wall shelf a platform/table close to the wall also minimizes foot induced vibration.
Rega recommends against heavy dense platforms for their turntable design to sit on. I asked about making my own concrete slab for stability and they discouraged that method, saying that it tends to store and then amplify energy/vibrations. Suggesting instead a lighter thinner surface much like the Rega shelves. One that in their words dissipates the energy instead, much like their lightweight turntable designs are intended to do.