Just purchased new turntable

[Moondog55]

Ok Wall mounted shelves "Better" but for various reasons i'll go with a stand, luckily I have some very heavy concrete slabs I can use to mass load the floor and a selection of spikes, I have to investigate the squish balls as I've not seen any locally or do you mean ordinary racquet type squash balls?

[Nanook]

Yes, racquet type squash balls , as used in the game of Squash..

they are quite effective at decoupling shelves, etc.

[analog_sa]

Originally posted by Moondog55

I was thinking of a sandwich of the MDF, followed by 10mm Acrylic ( which I have) and buying a sheet of 6mm glass and bonding all three together with epozy resin.
Question please; is epoxy the best way to do this??
Is the 3-layer sandwich a good idea??
Money is tight at the moment as I am still looking for work.
Or would it be a better idea to save and buy a slab of polished granite or marble.

Hi Ted. A very strange sandwich indeed. Whatever you do, don't jump for granite/marble because they look cool and some guys love them. I suspect they are the same guys who once couldn't keep their fingers off the loudness switch

IME experience most stones impart a very strong artificial colouration. Slate is quite a bit better than granite but still requires attention and other materials to sound good.

I suggest you search for "symposium clone" at the vinyl asylum. It's simple and cheap, although it may take a while to collect all the materials. It sounds much better than any single material shelf and provides very decent isolation. Nanook's squash balls between two acrylic shelves will also work well.

[Nanook]

here's a little recipe for a very nice sounding "rack":

The Ikea "Lack Rack"
not designed by me, but suggested by Ken Lyons of Neuance isolation platforms http://www.neuanceaudio.com/ .

In Australia, IKEA sells the Lack range of tables...(Lack Tables). An effective well isolated DIY rack can be made by stacking the Lack tables together to achieve the number of shelves required. Cut the legs down if you don't need 19" between them. drill a small countersink into each and use a marble attached to the counter-bore with some blue tack or similar. You would still need to put the whole rack on something solid.. basically for less than AUD $100 a very good sounding, quite good looking rack (particularly well suited for turntables...)



stew

[Alabama978]

They were a great idea but unfortunately in most countries IKEA sell the tables with hollow legs. I can tell you this because I took a chance and bought three after reading the old articles on the Net.

The threaded end of the leg is OK with about 50 mm of solid wood plug, the other has about 5 mm!

I stacked them up full size and used them to stored other stuff on

Some say the Cherry tables are still solid but I cannot confirm that.

[Nanook]

but the best part of the Lack is the top surface anyways. you could run some all-thread from top to bottom...with acorn nuts on top and bottom (through the 3 layers of legs...etc...).

the legs could be filled with foam or similar...

seems Canucks and Ausies have an affinity for each other...no need for an explanation to "Aausieisms". I spell "color" as colour, liter as litre, etc. Younger folks here only know American spelling...

[rodthesod]

Moondoq55.
interesting topic. you need to ask yourself one very important question. Where will the vibrations come from? Answer, your very own speakers. their job is to create vibration. Forget hangin the system from the ceiling, think about putting the deck and cd in another room. This is no problem, lets face it most systems are against a wall. Therefore put the deck in the room behind the one where the speakers are drill holes in the wall and connect to the amp. forget spending money on anything which isnt a record

[Moondog55]

That is a really good point, but given the layout of most Aussie houses not really practical.
It isn't the vibration of the speakers that is the real problen though, given the drought here and the drying out of the ground it is the trucks on the road and the train at the bottom of the street a kilometer away that are a much bigger problem, compared to a 42 tonne semi-trailer the vibration from my speakers is nothing