How to reduce vibrations and resonances in a high-end audio system 

The idea of Cartridge mounted directly to the Tonearm with hassle free was realised in Technic Turntable models SL10, SL12 & SL series nearly 40 years ago - a brilliance innovation.

What a good point would be is to mention when you start hearing it. In other words, how expensive does your set need to be before you need to start worrying about this stuff. Apart from the obvious MC of course

With regards to a MC head amp being built into the headshell Ortofon did this about 60 years ago in their SPU series of integrated headshell/cartridge designs incorporating very small step-up transformers.

I kept hearing a vibration distortion on my tubes amp. I’d feel a buzz on my amp of my desktop system. I’d use tube socket saver which gave a positive sound results. Probably the weight has lent a thicker sound and more accurate imagery. But, I still felt vibrations on the amp. I purchased a magnetic levitation (maglev) iso feet. This reduced the vibrations to a barely felt minimal buzz. Tonight, I placed felt pads below my maglev isolation feet. Now, I can barely feel a thing. No mid nor bass buzz in sound. As far as radiant vibrations I get from my speakers, I shielded the speaker and amp with an extra diffusion panel I had lying around. This may be my final tweak.

2 aspects come to mind. Increase the mass of the component and connect to vibration damping materials via large surface areas. An ideal vibration damper would absorb at all different frequencies, so maybe combine different materials with different absorption characteristics?

i use squash balls cut in half under the feet of my gear, and keep all the equipment on separate rack shelves. they are good for cutting down on internal resonances caused by the gear itself cd players etc and keep the gear decoupled from the speaker vibrations passing through the rack.

Not much usable advice here for reducing vibrations.

Paul, please try spring style isolation feet underneath small speakers. Made by Nobsound, they allow my speakers to vibrate but my stands won’t. Please give it a shot as a we only learn by tweaking.

Paul, I enjoyed the video, it must be because I just like hearing you talk and that’s good. But this is one video I learned nothing cause you said nothing. I was hoping to hear your thought s on isolation technics. Thanks and I really did enjoy it.

Paul seems like a good honest joe. I've caught a number of his Q&A videos here and he provides good solid answers quite a few times. But I have to say, he's a bit out to lunch regarding his take on mechanical vibrations, their distotions induced, their sources, and especially superior forms of vibration management. But then again, it seems everybody else is too.

Hello, what about magnetic isolation?

Your shirt goes mental with aliasing lol

I wouldn't build a RIAA amp into the tone arm, as it will increase the weight of the tonearm and therefore limit it's movements. What I have done is build my RIAA amplifier just under the tonearm. Still closeer than normal.

another great story, those were the days :-)

I've often thought of placing a rubber foam sheet around my turntable :). Sometimes I through a blanket over the dust cover. Actually, while probably not the best for a system, but I have everything in a steel rack system. I should at least place o-rings between the rack and the equipment on the screws.

I have no idea what Paul rambled on about here, and then the video was over

It won’t vibrate if you don’t press play.

Try sorbothane pads under your turntable. Expensive but incredible material. Next to nothing in terms of vibration and resonance will get thru to your turntable even speaker vibration at 25 hz is stopped in its tracks. Have seen it used on platters as an under pad but don't agree with that.

You can use a laser pickup, if i understand the question you are asking. Floating the turntable on repulsion magnetic isolation and then the turntable in a tripple isolated (mass-loaded, diffusion and room-tunable hemholts for the different bands), will do the rest.😂

Maybe he was talking about magnetic levitation ?

I think Audio Note may have stole your idea on the cartridge.

Doesn't vinyl not have as much information on it then a super hi res digital source.

Bubble wrap under everything... That's how they do it in Alabama 🤣

6:36 - One solution: make it wireless :)

I heard about a guy who did put his components in another room with a series of 3 mirrors to work the remote 😂

No need to give a expansion on your communication skills with people we only need to know how to reduce vibration noise that’s what the video is about? and your rambling on about people and stuff that isn’t relevant to what information people are trying to obtain trying sticking to the focus of the video and what it’s about!