Vinyl Isolation - Build Your Own Twin Isolation Platform for $35

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Thank you. Bought the necessary the only difference is I used sorbothane feet between the granite boards. My word it totally isolates my turntable and improved the sound brilliantly.

My Rega turntable is on a record cabinet i built decades ago, the cabinet is built of 3/4" oak plywood and holds 300 record albums so it is very solid. It also sits within a few foot of my speakers so it's subject to vibration from the speakers and subwoofers in the room. I bought a 3" maple cutting block and also used 3ea 2" sorbothene hemispheres between the block and the turntable feet. The result is very good isolation from vibration, if you tap on the turntable you can hear it in the speakers but even hard knocking on a cabinet is dead silent. My solution cost a bit more that his dual granite solution but at the time I looked there were no stone boards of the right size available. A 2" think maple cutting board would be cheaper and might well work just as well. BTW always remove the dust cover before playing a record so it doesn't catch and reflect sound down to the record surface.

Great video. I’m currently making a table from a leftover piece of butcher block countertop that’s made from acacia. Can’t wait to finish it and give it a try.

Thanks for the tips I can run my Hi Fi full volume now with no rumble or feed back but I got the granite slabs for nothing ! went to a marble and granite yard and looked in there scrap bin and got two 20cm x46cm x 40cm granite off cuts or sink holes , the bits they throw away after cutting the hole for the sink in a granite kitchen bench . I stuck felt pads between and on the bottom one and it works so well I was amazed

Yes this works a treat, I have used just a single block of granite with rubber feet, when I had to adjust for levelling I just used a few coins, even a single block works brilliantly, but having two would certainly eliminate any chance of a single ounce of resonance reaching the turntable, I think I will buy another to follow your example !

I used these under speakers to help saved neighbours from sounds transference, and they were amazing in conjunction with spikes!

Very nice and cost effective, these things really make a big difference. My isolation platform is a sandwiched construction of hardwood cutting board, rubber doormat cut to size, and glass cutting board sitting on a bicycle inner tube. The doormat has a fibrous surface on one side which allows me to slide it on the glass cutting board for leveling. It may actually have a constrained layer damping effect. I think it is very effective, gives a much more open and tuneful sound.

Wonderful mate & couldn't have came across this at a better time as last nite I literally was setting up my turntable and along the way talking about the importance of this amazing isolation pad that you've built and with you're kick ass knowledge have helped me to also be able to build a similar platform .. etc your sir are a gentleman & a scholar

ha i had this thought too! thanks for implementing it :) i will follow the same

A wonderful, enlightening demonstration. Thank you very much for this choice of a possible isolation platform for a turntable to be put on a less expensive, but efficient isolation platform! I've done research on this topic of isolation for a turntable, and a couple of them are a bit expensive. I have a used vintage Harman Kardon T25 Turntable belt drive; upgraded to a Denon DL-80A MC cartridge. Also I refurbished, repaired Rega Planar 3 Linn Basik Plus tonearm, with AT95E MM cartridge. In may case I'd add one of those platforms, and those 4 isolation feet underneath.🔉🎼🎵

Thanks! (Pasco, WA - USA)

I had a portable dance co. In the 70's disco days and used a demonstration waveless waterbed mattress that was just the right size to hold 2 turntables side by side with about 1" Clarence all around. I built a frame of acrylic with chasing led lights all around . I could fill the platform up at a gig and drain it afterwards. So it was easy to transport and gave better isolation than a 6" thick cement slab. I could actually set my turntable on the waterbed platform on top of my subwoofer and crank up the volume with no subsonic feedback . I now have my turntables suspended from the ceiling with window springs wrapped in cloth.

Great tip! Thanks a lot. I have done it using thick granite plates (43x45 cm) remaining from our bathroom tiling ;-). There IS a difference!

This is so great thanks for sharing! Build one of my own now

I used to granite garden slabs and these anti vibration square feet things. 8 in total. Still had issues though. Realised the weak point is the table it sits on, shakey legs. So moved it to more stable unit. Works good now.

Done this kind of installation years ago : 2 pieces of marble from a construction debris separated by 4 sorbothane feet. Under the bottom plate, a simple rubber mat to avoid scratches to the furniture and add some isolation. You can jump near the turntable, nothing happens.

You sir are a genius 👏

This is a really good tip Thank you

Great job.