[wroman214]

  A short while ago when I got back into vinyl and looking for a stout heavy platform for my TT I ordered a 24 X 18 X 3 in maple butcher block for these people and am very pleased with the product.  The platforms sell for $109.00 and I did not pay shipping at the time.  Thought I would pass this along, the maple shefl and the herbies big feet under the table have worked wonders for isolation.  I did get the Herbies platter mat as well for my SP-25, that makes a big difference rather than the hard rubber mat.

[TomS]

Which Herbie's feet? Big Fat Dots? There are so many different types on his site.

[tomytoons]

I have one of Dawn's maple blocks, 27# very nice, no handle slots, super price, no shipping $$.
I have Herbie's Gabon ebony dome 1/2 x1" under it and those are sitting in Iso-cups. You can use Herbie's "Tenderfeet" too or spikes or cork or......

BTW, this is on a glass rack, Ya gotta know what your doing. 

[decal]

Which Herbie's feet? Big Fat Dots? There are so many different types on his site.

Tom,
Shoot Steve an e-mail and he can recommend what products will work best in your situation. You can also ask on his Circle here on AC.

[decal]

Dawn's platforms are just maple butcher blocks (with routed in handle slots) that you can get from overstock.com. That's what I used to make my equipment rack.

[timind]

I used one of Dawn's maple blocks under my sub. Spiked the block to the floor which raised the sub up about 3 inches. I liked what it did.

[Big Red Machine]

I use Dawn.  Her prices direct are good and like Decal I purchased a bunch through Overstock.com for $1 shipping and slightly lower price.  I own 10 of them!

[Indiansprings]

I was told by another forum member that glass shelves are not, the ticket, for high quality sound reproduction. Might cost a little money, but replacing the glass shelves on my equipment with her 1.75 inch thick stuff might be nice. Real nice.

[TheChairGuy]

She's good - I've bought 3 platforms from her. 

One, a few years ago, she even cut in half for me as it more perfectly fit my tube mono-blocks that way (her nephew with wood cutting tools did it).   No extra charge for me - nice of her

I've yet to find anything that worked better under a turntable than a thick slab of maple.  I've read that natural cut (not end grain) is better than end grain and air dried is better than non air dried (the 24 x 18" end grain pieces that I have are both of these), but I simply haven't the time or inclination to fiddle further.

Every turntable I have now or in the future goes on a maple, end grain unit from Dawn's Depot....the effects are in most ways better than any equivalent upgrade of $100 in new cartridge, phono unit, interconnects or 'better' turntable.  I urge anyone that has a burning desire to spend $100 to improve your vinyl experience, to try one of these maple blocks under your TT.  Frankly, the first time I used one I was blown away by the positive effect of it - I never thought that it would so throughly trounce granite, marble, slate, mdf, oak and the myriad of other things I propped my table up on over the years trying to improve the experience.

Whatever intrinsic feature of maple is...it's tailor made for audio use 

[Len_Dreyer]

Dawn's platforms are just maple butcher blocks (with routed in handle slots) that you can get from overstock.com. That's what I used to make my equipment rack.

FWIW, she also does custom sizes without the handles slots. I ordered two.