Isolation for turntable


I have been thinking alot lately about isolation componants for my TNT JR. Have looked at Bright Star big rock/ air mass and Symposium products. Just wandering what your guys would recomend and also other manufactures that might compare to these. Thanks David
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I agree with Twl on this, even though I still use the custom table-base I designed for my TNT. It features 3" square metal tubing feet, filled with sand and stand on cones. They support a 2" high density board on top of which I placed 4 inner tubes from wheel barrel source. On top of the tubes there is another 2" board with black melamine. On top of which I have placed all my maple bases on my newly designed TT. (see, " VPI redisigning experiment").
My advisor, Pierre Sprey of Mapleshade, from whom I ordered the maple boards, feels that Sand, metal, air bladders etc, degrade the sound, he has found that components sound most natural when they stand on solid blocks of maple. The cones he uses are either solid brass feet or the ones made from layers of cork and ribbed rubber, ( pardon the expression!)
I tend to agree with him and Twl. I will take out that heavy air bladder table I have under my TT, as soon as I can. I will keep the heavy feet but I will place a butcher block from maple on them and then the solid maple bases of my new TT.