I have tried and played with countless amounts of feet under various turntables and alot depends on the particular turntable and its construction. I wont go into detail here but my conclusions down too, I generally dont get along with still points very much they tend to harden the sound and lean towards a more precise clinical presentation of corse its turntable dependent. I recently borrowed the Kodo turntable that has the big still points under the turntable and power supply, I had some large Harmonix feet around and replaced the still points and the difference was huge. I have recently purchased some Dalby feet for one of my turntables and the sound in credible but at a stupid price. I basically like the sound of wood it seems far more gentle sounding than steel or aluminium. If I were looking at spending still point money I would consider Harmonix as they make a range of nice sounding feet that are highly musical. At a more sensible level the townshend feet are amazingly good value in the scheme of over priced hifi and hard to beet no aggression at all and very musical sounding and the platforms are fantastic I use the podium under my speakers and boy do they work.
There is anouther nice sounding foot out there that LFD produce for there components and not bad looking they are based on soilid brass nikel plated with a sorbothane like isolation pad they worked very well under my shindo garrard much more cohesive than the large type 6 still points I have here just more human sounding. I find hard materials sound hard generally. I agree still points can work with something else like the townshend platform but also depends on the particular component. The harmonix large 202zx foot sounds far nice in my opinion if you like a warmer presentation the still points are cleaner but can be a bit too hard for my ears. Again its all down to apllication. Than we go into the wonderful world of shun mook and dalby who to my ears have some really amazing feet but at crazy prices. I personally would look at the townshend platform with the lfd foot on top if I were using a garrard or a 124 as from what I have heard they compliment very well and not stupidly over priced.
The world of Hifi can get really crazy and there are just so many isolation products obviously one can get really carried away they are mind boggling products out there like the Minus K and the Herzan ts 140 then we have the classic vibraplane and the tmc Isolation platforms all injecting some magic in many ways. Products like the seismic sink introduce some of this majic to a wider audience and are fuss free good honest bits of kit that do offer great performance. if I had the energy I could write pages on all the various feet and platforms I have gone through and where they work best.
Maybe the best thing would be to get your garrard and have a listen and decide what kind of presentation you are trying to achieve ie something a bit warmer or a something a bit faster and cleaner. Or you could start of with something safe like the townshend platform for main isolation and try adding other feet in between the turntable and platform latter on to tune things further.
I tend to first get the main isolation sorted they try adding other products for a bit of Majic.
Last edited by Vrajbasi; 05-10-2018 at 07:05.
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