Supporting the SL-1210

[MartinT]

I've tried a few things but the Isonoes win so far.

[Marco]

Yep for me Isonoes rule, *but* the 18 levels of Mana supports the Isonoes sit on (and hence also the 1210) makes, erm, just a little bit of difference to overall isolation!

Marco.

[colinB]

This thread is making me think i should do something about the top shelf of my quadraspire music works rack. The guitar shape perspex shelf which my deck sits on buckles and creaks so much on its little pegs it cant be good support. I think i might look into buying a suniko vent shelf to replace it. I guess it will fix straight on with out much problem.

[The Vinyl Adventure]

I have been wondering about the same thing colin
dies anyone have any thoughts about the suitability of wibbly wobbly quadraspire q4 ref with Acrylic shelves suporting a techie?

[DSJR]

Yep for me Isonoes rule, *but* the 18 levels of Mana supports the Isonoes sit on (and hence also the 1210) makes, erm, just a little bit of difference to overall isolation!

Marco.

Yeah, but if you rap the top glass shelf, does the sound come through the speakers?

[Marco]

No, not in the slightest

Marco.

[jandl100]

it loks like spiking the deck (or possibly blac-tacking) to a thick slate slab may be the best way to go.

Be careful with the blac-tack stuff. It is very strongly sticky.

I once stood a pair of speakers on a stand with blac-tack in between. When it came to taking the speakers off again, some of the speaker veneer remained behind.

[jandl100]

Hi Jerry

The large circle of small screws underneath the Technics provides direct access to the alloy chassis, bypassing the rubber. I removed three of these to allow the Stillpoints to contact the exposed chassis points, and I do prefer the results. Would you try the same with the RDC cones (I realise that they'd have to point the other way)?

Regards etc

I finally got around to doing something about this yesterday.

I haven't removed the screws (yet) - simply used the screwheads as the support points for up-ended RDC1 cones ...

Whoah!! Yep - result! A noticeably clearer and better defined sound. Def worth playing with this.
When I can be bothered to disconnect the tt and turn it over, I'll take 3 screws out so the cones contact the chassis directly.

[Citation16]

I recently bought again a Technics turntable with the Kab power supply.
I also got the Mike New massive bearing.

This time I wanted to make sure all the energy from the Technics was properly transmitted. My main goal was to mate the top plinth to the middle piece and the rubber base to a proper base (and not from its original feet like the first time).

All this resonance from the middle heavy plastic, I wanted to cancel it and have a proper transmission of energy.
So, under Mike’s bearing, I put a dab of strip & seal removable silicone, mating the bottom of the bearing to the bottom of the resonant aluminum plinth.

Then I added some regular black silicone to the top of the heavy plastic (whatever it is..), covered it with saran wrap so it would not glue itself to the belly of the aluminium plinth but nevertheless intimately mate with it.

[Citation16]

Before I put on the rubber base, I took to adding here and there amounts of peel & strip silicone where the heavy plastic meet the aluminium under side and also around the inside of the OL arm board (for the modded Rega 250 fitted). This peel & strip silicone come off real easy – so its easy to experiment.