NEW! FLUANCE Isolation Base - A TURNTABLE FORTRESS!

Out this week!!! The Brand New Fluance Isolation Base may just change the way you listen to music without shaking your bank account! Get good vibrations from all your gear: Speakers, Amps, CD Players and More! The IB40 lets you hear everything you want and nothing you don't! Please note that in my haste to bring you this brand new accessory in a timely manor... I refer to it in many different ways... like "anti-vibration platform," but don't let THAT ruin your quality viewing experience! Thanks for watching! Please SUBSCRIBE and LIKE!

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[bgroovin]

I bought a $35 acacia wood 1.5" thick cutting board off Amazon and use those combo cork/rubber feet for isolation. Works great and my Technics fits without overhang. No skipping, no tapping sound transmission. Completely dinosaur proof 🦖 I also have my cabinet sitting on rubber washing machine pucks. I can jump up and down on my wood floor with no skipping or noise issues.

[jim]

Good review. You're getting better and better. You seem more comfortable and it shows. 👍

[sourceonepainting]

Hello Bob. I went to a granite couter top company and asked if I could buy granite scraps. They said yes. For $60.00, I bought a 1 inch thick piece. They cut it for me and rounded the edges. Then I went to Home Depot and bought some stick on cushion pads for the bottom. All in about $70.00. I have had that under a few different turntables. It did a great job with near no bass feedback through my turntables. Once again, super fun video. I enjoy the way you and your producer put them together.

[cpta]

Thanks for the review! I got an email from Fluance introducing their isolation base. I have an Technics SL-1200 Mk2 and I didn’t like how your Technics feet barely fit. Thanks for saving me some time measuring to see if mine would fit. No, I wouldn’t make any measurements and I would have been unhappy with the look of the Technics and the Fluance base. Thanks again, Bob, for saving me some $’s and aggravation!

[soedal]

Nice review.

A tip to the viewers that have a turntable with dustcover: Close the lid when you are playing, and place something a bit heavy and damped on top of the lid. This really makes a big difference. I found it out myself in my youth. I put a phone catalog on top of the lid when playing my records on the Rotel turntable.

[Simon_Hawkshaw]

An isolation plinth. Something I never knew I needed. Thank you so much for this review and product introduction. Enjoy your good vibrations, Sir.

[SteveClarke-iups]

Hi Bob. Back in the day (20 years +?) Mission in the UK had an isolation base called the Isoplat. I'm using one of them under my vintage Pioneer PL71 direct drive TT + four sorbothane isolation feet under the turntable frame - springs in the feet are a little bit tired now. I've also used a kitchen granite cutting board with sorbothane feet and that's worked a treat too and cheap to put together. Love the vid's Bob and keep 'em coming. Best wishes Steve Hersham UK.

[philbert]

Very cool! I just updated my Fluance RT-85 with an Ortofon Bronze and MAN does it sound amazing! The Ortofon Blue was no slouch. But the Bronze definitely takes the table to the next level.

[chrisjames]

Dude I bought one and will buy another. I was using the Ikea butcher block, but that thing looks like Shite with my turntable. Quality is good and the integrated level is nice. Price is fair IMO.

[laszloantal]

I just bought mine in black 2 days ago 😊 it was a last available in 🇬🇧 UK arriving tomorrow

[gln]

Yes. Level the table on the platform after you level the platform.

I have real bouncy floors. I tried lots of isolation pathways. When I bought my cd player I had to move my amp to the top of my console. This meant the table on a shelf I built above it. No more skips from footfalls. Cost me fifty bucks for some heavy duty brackets and I used a piece of butcher board countertop I had left over from my kitchen Reno.

[jimfarrell]

I have a Pro-ject Ground-it platform underneath my Clearaudio table, but use a £15 heavy IKEA chopping board with sorbothane adhesive feet under my MoFi table and, to be honest, it works just as well and looks nicer.
Best thing for levelling is to level your entire house using massive hydraulic feet.

[DavidMander-rsuk]

My best friend is the compact disc!! 👍

[hifitommy]

BOB! to test your tt vibes, with the motor off, put the stylus down onto the record. THEN tap tap tap the cabinet. ideally you should haveno soundbut that can usually only be accomplished with air bladders under the platform. i did a DIY thing using two packs of inflatable pool toys for kids that I bought at toysRus a decade ago. after I toyed with foam, then packing bubbles, then the air bladders (they WEREN'T pretty) which were just about perfect. adjusting the air in them was how I leveled the turntable. being a widower meant that WAF never had to be a factor. i suppose I could have constructed an inverted box that didn't touch the cabinet and yet hid the arm floaties that were the bladders I used.

DON'T use that crappy round FRUSTRATING bubble level. use a regular Stanley type banana level. first, level left to right, then turn it 90 degrees for front to back. done.

[rickfell]

If you're having vibe issues get a wall mountt type stand for turntables.They are really good.Mount on load bearing wall if possible.

[petekutheis]

My EAT C Sharp seems to have great built in vibration control. I have used wood blocks and rubber discs under other components before and didn't perceive a difference. Biggest influences on decent sound in my room have been 1) GIK room treatments, 2) declutter the room and pull speakers out, 3) biamp and 4) Denafrips Venus II-12th DAC>Mytek Brooklyn DAC> Node 2i. What I need to clean up is the hiss at higher volume from the EAT Petit Glo phono pre. I hear Mola Mola makes a great outboard phono pre---'course we are talking way >handful of Ks.

[dtracyss]

I'll be looking into that for my Fender MoFi, this is the Ticket!
I've got Salamander 90 Inch center for my System that thing weighed 400 pounds and we had to Traverse Stairs with that mother!!!
Definitely Super Nice but the TT could always use this to make it even more Quiet!

[tubefreeeasy]

Spring type iso feet are cheaper and superior. Just remove a few springs to compensate for weight.

For some users, they’ve used only 1 spring per foot. Personally, I don’t have a turntable but have used these springs under my speakers.

It has, by far, had the greatest effect on sound over spikes and sorbothane.

[drazenbabich]

Hey brother… Just couldn’t find any isolation platform that would fit my Technics SL1200 size wise, so I built my own.

2 exactly sized 19mm MDF boards glued together to get the right thickness (38mm), sanded, polished, spray painted and mounted on specially designed isolation feet which use 3 ball bearing decouplers structure (cheap as chips) perfect fit, function and finish.

The whole thing including piano black spray paint cost me around $30 USD and it’s better than the Fluance one.

Many use thick wooden or bamboo chopping boards etc but they just don’t look “right” under a turntable if you know what I mean.

[robertkessler]

Great video. Very timely as I’m shopping around for just such a solution. (Does anyone recognize the music from the Mac Power Users podcast?)