What's Under Your Table

What's under your turntable...?

This page is a photo gallery of different racking methods being used to support turntables. Various components are used including the frame structure of the mount, a shelf surface and various footer devices including cones, pucks or heavy rubber feet.

This page is a work in progress and, as such, is incomplete. The world of audio racks and platforms is so vast that it would seem unlikely to fairly cover the depth and breadth of it within these pages. The intent here is to add examples of racking and platform methods as they come to me and as I find them, over time. The page will grow. Incidentally, I am looking for as many different examples of racking methods as I can find. From air suspended, to magnetic levitation, to solid and high mass to solid and damped to frequency tuned racks to energy dissipating light and rigid racks, etc.

Mounting methods are categorized as follows:

	Floor standing, with or without suspension
	wall mounted, with or without suspension
	suspended from the ceiling

Additionally, various isolation methods may be employed in an effort to separate the turntable from its environment as follows:

	suspension via springs, elastic belts, tennis balls, opposing magnets, pneumatics, hydraulics
	resonant energy sinks (example: sand box)
	constrained layer shelving
	high mass plate shelves such as 3 inch thick granite
	cone footers, mounting pucks, roller ball isolators, etc.

Floor Standing Racks

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The stand beneath the Rockport Technologies System III Sirius Turntable. Floor standing, air suspension actively leveled.

VibraplaneComp.jpg (97172 bytes) Vibraplanes massive and air suspended platforms and/or shelves designed to stabilize electron microscopes and other precision lab gear are recommended highly by certain members of the audio press. This vibraplane photo was donated by Rob Thomas who uses it to support his non-suspended Kuzma turntable.

Minus K Technology BM-8 platform shown supporting a Simon York S7 turntable. This platform boasts 1/2 hz vertical and 1.5 hz horizontal vibration isolation. More information at: http://minusk.com/content/applications/audio-reproduction.html

High Mass and Rigid. A Billy Baggs Pro stand (commercial) supports a massive 3 inch thick granite plate which in turn supports a massive non-suspended turntable, a Redpoint Testa Rossa XS. Note how the Redpoint doesn't use footers of any kind, rather its base and motor pod sit flatly over the granite. Thanks to Wes Bender for sending in this photo. The rest of Wes's system pics can be viewed here.

TTstand_1.jpg (42469 bytes) Chuck Millers' ultra massive DIY floor-standing rack supports a carbon fiber base Teres/Graham 2.2 rig. Rigid, high mass, Sand damped.

Webmaster's rigid floor standing rack supports a refurbished Thorens TD124 sitting in a massive slate plinth.

Tabula Rasa. In very solid Maple. Photo courtesy of Werner Ogiers.

turn.jpg (81513 bytes) Thorston Loesche's massive Acoustic Solid stand supports a non-suspended Acoustic Solid "Solid One" turntable.. Rigid, high mass. (commercial)

ACna_5.jpg (83700 bytes) an attic listening room A stout little hardwood cabinet serves as a rigid floor standing support for a non-suspended Garrard 301.