Vibration - What are the Main Sources?

Given speakers are a source of vibration, what do folks think they are isolating their speakers from when they try and isolate their them? The other speaker?

Speakers sound best when they are firmly grounded to a solid base i.e. not isolated from their base. Best to spend the effort and $$ isolating other components from the speakers and the vibrations caused by the speakers. 

Transformers vibrate, so it's a good idea to isolate individual components from one another. Stacking components normally produces undesirable results.

It's not going to work, MC. I've already chewed out Admin about your defamation and removing my post which succinctly addressed your false claims. It must really hurt to know that someone close to you turned you in and now you've decided to defame your betters, here.

What a piece of work you are. You dug your own hole. Live in it.

All the best,
Nonoise

Go look at all the removed posts.

Like the ones that I wrote in response to your defamation, that you conveniently had removed? Do you think that puts you in a better light?
You do realize that it's been read by many before you had it deleted.

All the best,
Nonoise

Timely subject!

Getting close to final set up of my TT.

Just made a base - 3/4" mdf "box" filled with sand.

The TT weighs just shy of 60lbs, the base is approx 25lbs

My thinking is this. The vibrations present in the component needs to go somewhere. The vibrations in the environment need to be prevented from getting to the component.

The component should be coupled to something the vibrations can dissipate to. The whole thing should be decoupled from the "world"

So I’m looking to put roller blocks between the TT and the base. It will both couple the TT as well as allow for horizontal movement.

Then, I’m thinking either ISOAcoustics pads under the whole thing, or, springs. So many sources for springs around that can serve virtually any purpose, and are inexpensive. Just need to find springs that are the right diameter (so they are stable), the right height (again, so they are stable) and the right spring rate so the whole unit floats. Meaning, the same force is required to "lift" it as is required to "push" it a given distance.

Seems pretty straight forward...

If floating in zero gravity, and kicking your feet about (not touching anything) vibrations in your body are going to be minimal, all the forces are contained within you. Now, back on terra firma, and you kick the ground, the forces come back into your body. Very disruptive...

I appreciate the arguments against springs and I don’t really know how they work… but I went from spikes on my floorstanders to pucks, to mid- grade springs to expensive (dampened) springs and the improvement kept getting more noticeable. Springs really work @clearthinker