The ideal setup is for absolutely NO vibration on the turntable, especially turntable motor vibration / noise. Isolation and vibration reduction required on the mounting platform (air suspension and / or large mass platform to concrete slab). Most electronic components will probably have some vibration. Absorbing that vibration is good so that it doesn’t get into other components.
Vibration isolation or absorption?
You see those pointy things at the bottom of a speaker that are very very sharp. Arguably a weapon in the wrong hands. And then you see those same pointy things inserted into a disk.
So the pointy things, aka ‘spikes’ , can Channel vibration elsewhere and away from the components and speakers, or they can isolate it.
Seems channeling vibration away from a component/ speaker, which I guess is absorption, is preferable.
Is this true? And why do they keep saying isolation.