Dear Paul Of all stereo reviewers I love your reviews the best . They are detailed , beautifully presented and accurate . Thank you for your erudite reviews !
Outstanding as always Paul. As someone who still has his 1980 Technics SL-Q303 and listens to it regularly but lives 150 feet away from the busiest train line into & out of Chicago, I will be looking into purchasing an ISOSLICE very soon. Thank you and keep up the great work.
I have just recently made my own. Bought 2x IKEA bamboo butcher blocks, some adjustable spikes and isolation pads. I put the isolation pads between the two blocks and the spikes below the bottom block. The spikes are adjustable to get the level right. It actually works really well. In many ways, the same improvements as Paul mentioned in his review (he put words to what I also heard). For £38, I am really happy. It does not look quite as nice as the one reviewed here, but it definitely improved the sound coming out of the turntable.
Constrained layer isolation is something I played around with some 20-15 years ago and you can get very good results quite easily. Appearance might be another issue...
Neat. I wonder if it beats Darko's Ikea Atitilig bamboo cutting board on Atacama Isolation gel. I have those under all my components and it made a notable improvement.
Hi Paul thanks for another great review. Tempting, but I’m not sure about the aesthetics it’s rather chunky. Having said that my old Technics 1200 needs all the help it can get!
Hi Paul, I'm aware that the price is very competitive, but how would this compare with the likes of the isolation offerings from AUVA, I'm thinking that they are aimed at slightly different markets but both have their attractions depending on what is more important to your wants/needs and potentially space too, you are spoiling us with choice, not at all a bad thing.
Hi Paul I have 4 Soundeck mini discs under my Marantz TT15S1 turntable feet, which itself sits on an isolation platform made by a German company called SSC. I repeated the same magic trick for my Cyrus XR i9 amp, and the difference in sound quality is immense. More bass, richer presentation, and hearing stuff I didn't know was there before.
It's my turn not to understand now :) I first did a basic with/without comparison. Then the cheaper Blue Horizon platform compared with the Isoslice using the Rega. Then a more expensive LSD turntable, more sensitive perhaps? That was used to compare the Isoslice with the Delos. Using a lower-end Rega to test the Isoslice/Delos would not have offered the same challenge for the platforms. The rest of the system was the same in all cases.
These platforms are completely optional really if you maybe want to try something out. I sort of lost faith in the hifi mags years ago selling expensive cables and went online. Can understand the Rega impoverishment if speakers are pretty close. My fav record deck was heavy mass though
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Or maybe a pack of anti vibration washing machine pucs from Timu retailing. at £1.75 per 4 inc postage. You could prob ingrave your own logo with a stanley knife.
I was shocked when i saved a Ferguson 3360 by reapairing the BSR turntable with the uswual sticky grease that you could bum bang on it with out it skipining there isolation was top notch
Looks like a lot of work goes into those. Companies such YBA etc figured out years ago that leveling and isolation efforts go somewhat wasted using 4 feet. Almost impossible to get four feet completely flat. Isolation platforms and audio components should really have three feet if vibration control and isolation is a serious consideration. YMMV of course.
If you used the platform as a football then sure. I would question the foam too. Apart from that, it's not going to degrade into a pool of oil for many decades to come so I wouldn't worry about it. It's there to reduce the noise floor. That, to me at least, is more important than if the platform will still exist in the year 3535 (with apologies to Zager and Evans).
What if you don’t have the wall space for a wall-mounted shelf…or the wall has angles in the wrong places, or you don’t want to drill holes in your wall or the wall itself is not solid (mine isn’t) or…next! ;)
whilst wall mounting avoids bouncy floors it does nothing much for the kind of seismic vibration from trucks and traffic in general... and earthquakes I suppose.
I think this is insanity...Dare you do a direct comparison with a set of washing machine puks from Timu placed on a level hard or soft surface and retailing for £1.75 for a pack of four inc postage.
