Machina Dynamica under 'table?


I have checked the archives and found some good press on the Promethean isolation platform. Are there any new users or experience with it under a turntable? I have one arriving today to go under my Spacedeck which resides on a rack on a sprung floor. I am hoping this eliminates the remainder of floorborne vibrations that my existing Neuance/DH Cones didn't solve. And as a side note, I am expecting the sound to be improved too.

Any thoughts?

Oz
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I first set up the Promethean on my VTI rack. This was a disaster as the rack was amplifying minute floor vibrations and transferring them to the springs. Not good. As per Geoff's advice, I placed everything on the floor which consists of the following in order:

DH Cones
MDF shelf
springs
Neuance shelf
Nottingham base
Turntable

This made a dramatic improvement. Almost ZERO floorborne vibrations. If you jump up and down directly beside the 'table, the springs are excited, but anything close to normal behavior in the room does absoltely nothing to upset the apple cart. And the real benefit is the improvement in sound quality that this wrought. Images are more focused and stable, bass is better defined, and dynamics seem to be more....., well, dynamic.

For Carterham.

I do have a wall mounted shelf that I used in the past and it is still mounted, my Nitty Gritty currently resides there. It is on a side wall, and my rack is now on the front wall with a double bay window directly behind. The only way to get it back on that shelf is with extra long ICs, and I'm not going there. I did, however, try that configuration last week temporarily, and I actually prefer the table on the Promethean.

My thanks to Geoff for his patience and help over the phone.

Oz