How to Isolate Your Turntable from Vibration for Cheap! #audiophile #vintagestereo #vinylcommunity

It truly will isolate your turntable and will give you a better listening experience! I recently paid over $200 for isolation feet(in a separate video) and this works equally as good port pennies on the dollar! Can't wait to her your comments!

[richcooper]

Nice video. A little food for thought on "self leveling" (imho). The tube creates a space equidistant between the cabinet and the tile. If the cabinet is not level, the tile will not be level either. You said, "it is self leveling, SORT OF", which is synonymous with "it will not really be completely level if the cabinet is not completely level." I know this may sound like nit picking, but turntables are a precision tool and should be set up completely level. I saw that you mentioned in the comments that you did use a level on your turntable. Everyone who uses this clever hack must do the same or risk creating a whole new problem while trying to fix another. That said, as you say, a nice inexpensive hack. Cheers.

[georgeanastasopoulos]

Excellent; thank you very much for this demonstration, and further explanation of an effective isolation for a turntable. A very inexpensive, and practical Turntable Isolation method. I'm going to try an isolation method such as this one that you've made with a Direct Drive Turntable I bought recently.🔉🎵🎶

[SmilinMikeable]

Thanks. Good idea. Was thinking about tennis balls inside of a wood encloser. This is much more elegant! Im going to run to the store now and see if i can find 1 w a 12" diameter

[Calimero-]

Honestly the idea is epic, I will try this method

[Drivehead]

I have wooden floors, need to hang it from the ceiling but I have not had the time to construct such an apparatus. Stepping stones from Lowe's or Home Depot seem to help out some. I may try the rubber tube set up on top of the Stepping Stones. Somebody reported great results with a 150 lb stone slab used during college days that eliminated all problems from stomping and dancing. I imagine the best setup would be to have the turntable in a separate where the speakers would have no effect on it. I wonder does extreme high volume music impact the cartridge/tone arm even if the turntable is perfectly isolated.

[sidesup]

I'm not an expert on everything, (as some claim), but I am an expert on vibration as it applies to audio fidelity. Maybe I should start a college and be the professor. LOL Extraneous vibration is the skull and crossbones to sound quality. A sylus playing a groove or a laser playing a disc, or a laser playing an lp, (there is a review of such a laser cartridge on the Audiophiliac youtube channel right now.. it's recent)....whether it is laser or stylus it is is a very delicate process. Just because you don't have skips, does not mean that you are having an ideal trace of the grooves. The air tire thing in the long run works best with sources that unlike a turntable, do not have to be perfectly level ideally. What will happen eventually with the air tire is that it will gradually deflate a bit and the turntable will be not perfectly level; if it is now. A small bubble level comes in handy. Air is a good deterrent to vibration spreading, as is rubber. Some like sorbothene, but I think it takes the life out of the sound somehow; at least in my experimenting. There is no overkill with a 150 pound square. A 1/4 ton slab or section of tree trunk would be even better. Instead of cutting down a tree, put a want ad in.Someone may have already cut tree stumps around. As the tree stump gets older, it will get much lighter due to losing its water weight. Because a cut tree stump will not have a flat surface, I prefer it under a cd player or tape deck; a turntable will need an arrangement to level it, if using a tree stump. While there is some vibration that gets to the ceiling from the floor because they are connected; the ceiling has not nearly as much vibration as the floor. Neither do side walls. If you have a brick side wall, putting up a good bolted shelf at shoulder height will make your $500 turntable, sound like a $1500 turntable that is placed on the usual equipment rack on the floor.

Then there is the matter of what to put beneath the turntable or cd player and the structure. After years of using springs under my cd player, I tried cones instead. The cones sounded better. With turntable, springs in my experience sound better. Have also tried many other things like tennis balls, etc. With vintage turntables, their spring suspension and how good each one was, seperated the men from the boys as far as sound quality went. Now they try to make turntables out of space age materials that do not absorb much vibration like springs, but which are said to dissipate vibration faster. I'm a vintage turntable design guy. I can't say I've ever compared them side by side. The modern ones said to be best are expensive. Can't say I've been impressed too many times in showrooms where they demonstrate stereo equipment. A lot of vintage guys wonder whether spring suspensions in turntables going out of style has something to with being labor intensive and more cost. Like smaller transformers in amps. Which also saves the maker on shipping costs in addition to smaller transformers being generally cheaper.

[Bootradr]

Thanks for this idea. I'm going to give it a try because I also have wood floors and it's been a headache for a year and a half trying to fix this issue so many other ways. Thanks for the video and the idea. How long has this worked for you and has it worked the way you wanted it to?

Brian in Fort Worth 🎶

[roofermarc]

Came for the tip fell in Love with the hat. Hopefully we get Trump back in. Thanks for posting.

[garybernstein]

A little before and after demo would have been better.

[musicstevecom]

Good Idea, Did you use a level after installing this?