Isolation for turntable


I have been thinking alot lately about isolation componants for my TNT JR. Have looked at Bright Star big rock/ air mass and Symposium products. Just wandering what your guys would recomend and also other manufactures that might compare to these. Thanks David
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I would say that if you can do without any soft isolation products, you would be better off without them. I feel that they compromise bass and dynamics. If you are not getting any feedback or having problems associated with such vibrations, don't use any isolation. IMHO.
Highly recommend the symposium sheves and rollerblocks. if your tt is not suspended the best (letting th turntabe doing its thing) was a Target wall shelf and Ultra shelf and rollerblocks. the more symposium I get the happier I am with my system!
Twl I am not getting any feedback at all even in high listening levels, so if I read between the lines you feel this would add no value to the dynamics. The reason I am thinking about this is I have a salamander synergy 40 w/ 30 extention for amp pre amp and source equ. TNT sits on a salamander synergy tv-30 looks just like the other but has a huge top, I just thought a little more weight may help dampen it a little better Thanks for all imput on this issue. David
My TT is nowhere near in the league of yours, but my shelf is similar: a Synergy Twin 40, with the TT placed on the double-width top shelf. These racks don't really qualify as primo TT support, to say the least - of course they have their other virtues, relatively speaking, but although not horrible by any means (especially compared to Salamander's Archetype series), the adjustable frame is far from maximally rigid, and the MDF-core shelf is fairly resonant. In my system, I use a Symposium shelf placed underneath the Technics SL-1200 'table, supported by four FoculPods soft sorbothane footers sitting on the rack shelf. This has worked well for me, but my TT's built-in suspension presumably is not as effective as yours. With this arrangement, physical energy inputs to the rack's frame or the shelf are greatly attenuated when felt at the Symposium, but I have honestly never sonically compared this set-up to placing the TT directly on the rack shelf. Although I don't think you can really go wrong using some kind of non-resonant shelf, such as the Symposium or one of the others, you may also have to experiment placing it on hard footers like cones in order to avoid excessive motion resulting from multiple soft suspensions. But whether you'll get an audible improvement over your non-problematic current set-up, probably only trying something out for yourself will tell.