Scott, a fellow member from Lenco Heaven has concerns on my motor isolation base and let me quote. . .
"I think the dual belt arrangement should help with the belt stretch problem associated with single rubber belts.
Blue Tak might be a solution, maybe the felt serves as a helpful isolation, especially with the motor now in a heavier pod resting on the shelf below the TT. And there's the rub- if the motor isnt "coupling" with the pod and exacerbating resonance it's cool. But if it just moves around the frequency of the resonance it might not be productive ( I know this from a few mass based experiments in the past). The real issue is: does the motor resonance excite the shelf, and does that return back up into the TT sitting on that same shelf? That could easily be worse than the stock setup if the shelf was easily excited at the motor resonance, you may need to change plinth feet again with possible further improvements to gain! Something to consider in any case, as us old scudder a have figured out through years of tweaks- any time you make even one change, you have to reconsider the entire system and it's thousand variables. Cables or speaker location/spikes could now yield huge improvements for example. Wow, I leaked OT.
I would tend to think these solutions are most helpful with the stock plinth, which is probably the next design compromise to be addressed on that TT. But if you do that, it's not the cool yellow... and there's a point at which other turntable components would be better anyway.
I think this is a good point to stop, having wrung out about as much performance (within reason) as is prudent.
Nice Rega now- cool I would tend to believe I would like it even more than the P9, which I didn't much care for."
well, here's the catch, a Canadian feller was able to address this concern and borrowing his ideas I came up with this
I was able to separate the turntable platform from the motor by making a square hole on the acrylic where the motor isolation base passes through which in turn seats on the lower bamboo platform. The footer I used to separate the acrylic from the bamboo base is a mixture of rubber cork, acrylic, dynamat ebony puck and small pieces of 3m bumpons. Here's some pics:
