Microphonics

[adamct]

To quote from one of my favorite websites, The Online Photographer:

"(By the way, if you're wondering how to suspend an unsuspended [turntable] like the MMF 2.2 or the Regas, here's what you do. Go to the plumbing section of your local hardware mart and look for 1 1/2" pipe end caps in the plumbing section

 

[Grainger49]

Somebody recently recommended I try a slightly inflated inner tube with a 1" thick piece of plywood on top of it.  .  .  .   

Sam,

Microphonics are different than isolating turntables from room vibrations, IMHO!  As I posted above having a firm base that the table/furniture rests on is a cheap way to isolate the TT from the room.  I don't know the situation in your new place.  My table is in an oak shelf-unit which weighs 100 pounds empty.  My equipment can't weigh 30 pounds total, so mostly my isolation comes from the cabinet and the wall right behind it which is load bearing.  Even though it is on the second floor the wall below it is sitting on the foundation.  Just a lucky happenstance, not something I thought out.

With Joel Bain here I stomped on the floor in front of my table and I heard something but no skipping.  That is not a real world test.  I walk, I don't stomp.