Turntable isolation/ footfall

[Oregon]

For the past 30yrs, since I moved into this 117yr old Craftsman house, footfall issues have been ever persistent, even with a wall mount. A few weeks past, while performing some warranty work on my table, I thought to deal with this footfall "thing"; I got 3 IsoAcoustics Orea equipment isolators to replace the so-so feet which come stock on the ClearAudio Performance DC table. There has been some improvement, the bass has tightened up, more importantly, footfall has been reduced nearly 100%. This fix worked for me quite well.

 

I added a 1/4" thick sorbothane wafer to the top of each isolator so as to help retain the isolators to the table.

 

Cheers,

Cody

[Oregon]

Thought to include a pic of the entire rack so as to show the table on top of the rack.

 

[ctsooner]

graet job and pics. I'm a craftsman guy myself.  all the furniture I make is from 1900-1912 or so.  I love Iso for a less expensive alternative to HRS which to me is the best I've ever used, heard etc...  You done good.  Congrats and enjoy!!! 

[bkeske]

@Oregon

Glad to hear that worked for you 👍🏼I also have a wooden floor joist structure over my old home’s basement, which is very typical ‘round here. Thus, I also struggled with this, and one of the helps was to install 2x4 shoring in the basement under the rack area, but the real solution, for me, was purchasing a SOTA Sapphire table. That solved all my problems, both with ‘foot falls’, and also sonic feedback.

It will be hard for me to move away from the SOTA’s design because of that.

Edited April 30 by bkeske