Alloy turntable spiked feet

[Dubster68]

I tried various feet on my 1210, when I had it, made fuck all difference. Its all in the mind.

[Cas]

To be honest snake oil.

[Mikeandvan]

Or is it?

[paulf-2007]

If it makes you happy or puts doubts in your mind that you enjoy, fill yer boots.

[rubber duck]

I tried various feet on my 1210, when I had it, made fuck all difference. Its all in the mind.

Sorry, but different supports sound different and have been measured to show why. The more useful question that has been asked is what the OP is trying to achieve with these.

[rubber duck]

The design is self defeating. The rubber 'O' ring at the screw end that butts onto the turntable base is OK, as that will compress and cease to be significantly resilient once the foot is tightened. The function of a spike going into a 'cup', I don't understand. If it was a spiked foot bearing down onto the surface below the deck, I could accept that. Any real rigidity is lost due to the larger 'O' ring on the bottom of the foot, which introduces a compliance, defeating any purpose the spike may (or may not) have had.

I'd regard these feet as Hi-Fi 'jewelry', to be honest. They don't seem to offer any sensible function.

Actually I think this is trying to offer the best of both worlds - coupling with spikes and isolation or damping with the O ring. I have doubts whether the O ring is sufficiently compliant for isolation and there certainly is an element of bling to the whole package and price. The listing says returns accepted, so if you could buy to try this might be the best way forward.

[walpurgis]

coupling with spikes and isolation or damping with the O ring

You can't couple and isolate with these feet.

Theoretically, it can be done to an extent though. Using a compliant decoupling suspension partnered with very firm fluid damping which would be seen by the mass as almost rigid. Rather like racing suspension on a car.

[struth]

Think if you use spikes wrong way they act more toward a decoupler

[Dubster68]

Ok bought a set. I spoke to the seller and he sounds a nice guy who runs the family business. He has sold a lot of these feet and had no issues. As he said money back option if not happy

I had good results with spikes on a bamboo isolation board and it seemed to tighten the bass up and stopped it booming. I am after that result with these but having a more standard looking set of feet as I never liked the look of spikes on the Technics turntable. Only time will tell if they change anything for the better. If we dont try these experiments things stay the same and get stale. We can all quote figures and dismiss things but many things work different due to other upgrades mods etc.

Like I said I will feed back once tested. People dismissed putting RDC cones on a Technics deck and it will destroy the sound etc. I can honestly say they didnt and changed it for the better.

[rubber duck]

Looking forward to your impressions. I've gone off any form of spikes/coupling myself simply because there is no isolation for the t/t from external vibrations. But this could work if your isolation board is decoupled from your rack, which would be my preference.