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HIFI IKEA HACK: High-End HIFI Isolation Platform for $20!
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- čas přidán 16. 08. 2024
- two minute tuesdays ! talking about hifi platform for isolating your gear ! for CHEAP with IKEA Hacks.
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Showing my age here. Many many years ago, when I was enjoying a turntable, I used a typewriter pad. Remember typewriters? Heavy things prone to vibration. Most sat atop heavy rubber-type pads that were the perfect size for turntables. I may still have mine.
I worked for Royal toward end lol
Love the idea! Good stuff.
Steve, that IKEA board looks good, sounds pretty awful.
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I placed my discounted £12 Aptiitlig on 4 x 50cm Sorbothane hemispheres, then my Technics SL100C straight on top. Cue, for a cost of £20, my system now sounds as if I'd replaced ALL my equipment with gear twice as expensive. Improvements noticed across the spectrum. 70 years a hifi enthusiast, and never before experienced an upgrade like it. Just saying...
Incidentally Steve, watch all your videos on CZcams!
Tip I've personally tried myself recently: If you want to make the texture of the bamboo board look deeper and rich, you can use mineral oils that people use for their wooden/bamboo cutting boards. Once you apply it, you will immediately be able to tell the difference in color depth. It should last quite a while since you won't really use the board for cutting. Just make sure to leave it untouched overnight after application for the oils to completely dry and embed onto the surfaces.
I personally did it originally because I sanded away the IKEA logo on the side of the board, so that side was slightly faded from all the sanding. The mineral oils pretty much rejuvenated that side and made it look as if it was never sanded in the first place. Looking back, I would personally do this visual hack regardless of whether or not I had sanded the board.
If you want to go cheaper than that. Solid concrete blocks from the hardware store works well too. Don't want to scratch a surface. Yoga mats cut to size also works for the cheap.
Chopping block + Practise Hockey Pucks make a serious damper Pucks are made of a dense foam rubber.. not as dense as a real puck.. softer for not making marks in garage doors etc.. Works a treat.
My hi-Fi dealer told me about these IKEA boards a few years ago. He swears by them. He mentioned something about the bamboo running in different directions.I never did buy one but maybe I should.
See i found this hack by someone else year or 2 back...but i still question the bamboo material. I think im on this thought train oddly due to skateboards using it for its "snappiness" and "pop" characteristics. Tho i know it is not used as a tonewood for acoustic instruments cuz it doesnt have the ideal characteristics as say spruce, mohagony, and others. Im def going to try this tho lol
Brilliant, i actually did this about a month ago and also added sorbothane feet to each corner of the cutting block. Works a treat under my Technics Sl 1700 mk2. Great minds...
what duro rating did you use for your turntable platform? 30, 50, or 70?
@@Tunnelsnakes Duro rating?
@@jamesdwright The maximum load rating of the individual sorbothane feets. When you bought them, it should have been listed as part of their specifications.
Learned this from Roy Gregory a few years ago, but the more the merrier.
I use the Ikea aptitlig blocks and Blu-tac and isoacoustics orea feet. Boy, am I isolated!
Good idea ! - Another option for that board would be to drill 4 holes into that board. Diameter same as a squash ball, Depth 1/2 diameter of squash ball. Then glue in 4 soft squash balls to give damped pneumatic suspension :-)
Keep in mind the weight of your turntable and the weight of the Ikea board... the Sorbothane feet listed wouldn't work for my set up based on weight... I had to go up to the dura 50. The recommended weights are listed in a PDF called Sorbothane's Standard Product Guide. Best to check it before blindly ordering.
Have used Ikea butcher blocks for years. Also put squash balls cut in half as isolation feet for them.
65 this year. Bought a low cost Sony turntable to play my old vinyl. Also had my huge speakers floor speakers redone (new woofers) and my problem now is that with my wife working at home (upstairs) I am in a very small room downstairs. I like it LOUD and when I get to 11 o'clock (or close) I get a huge rumble-feedback from the turntable. I have the speakers as far apart as possible, yet the turntable is still pretty close. The platforms are out of my budget, in fact many of them cost more than I paid for the turntable! The Ikea board may be something i'll look into. Thanks!
I got this from IKEA yesterday. Very well build and heavy. Thank you for the tip Jay.
I bought a yoga matte and cut pieces out of it to put under the feet of all my components, works great for that. Isolation is in general not a difficullt or expensive thing to achieve. You just have to get creative.
Also, Machina Dynamica Springs are a fantastic addition under components and their New Dark Matter to absorb bouncing laser light inside CD player
I will use this idea. What are your go to tracks for:
1. Bass
2. Treble
3. Mid range
4. Tonal balance
5. Timber
6. Sound Stage / Imaging
7. Female Vocals
8. Male Vocals
9. Other?
And they're damn fine looking too.
If some high end brand name was selling that exact same block of bamboo, and nothing else, expect to see a zero added after the 16. I suppose they may have a name plate added.
Funny how this video came out the day I came back from Ikea with a Kallax and 2 Aptitligs :D
I have it under my Gyrodec TT, works wonders. Very high value/price factor.
Great idea and you are spot on about "some" 20 minute videos ! Not all, but some I just can't finish. Great job.
Apparently, audiophiles think alike. I have used a kitchen cutting board as an isolation platform for my system, under a CD player! Finding the right size was tough.
I was using this block under my turntable about 8 years ago, only because the TT didnt fit on the surface i had and this cutting board was on hand for cooking.... setting trends gain! oh yeah!
Great first video! My wife will like hearing me say we need to go to Ikea.
Superb Jay.loved every bit of the 2minutes and a great idea too.
i use thermal gel pads, extra large.
Try it.
its ridiculously good.
I use gaia III for clearaudio concept turntable. IKEA - good idea 👍. I will try for my other components. Thx :)
Thanks for the video! Have a project debut carbon, Nakamichi SR-3A powering SVS Ultra towers. Trying to play some vinyl loud, and was getting a terrible feedback noise from the speaker. A cutting board my dad made, that I couldn’t bring myself to use because it looks so nice. It has four ridiculously small rubber pads on it. I placed my TT on it and feedback is gone, cranking some Baba O’riley 🙌 thanks 🙏
These would work well with the brass spikes you can find on ebay for 4/$20 or abouts....thanks for the 2 min tip!
Paired with Atacama Isolation Gel is the way to go.
You need to rebrand as three minute Thursdays.
I was close. Give me a break xd
How about a 2-4 but don't drink the whole case. if do that's what 8 tracks are for.
@@Jayiyagi Jay, the video was 3 1/2 minutes long. If you're going to do a prelude, you need to tell us when you're starting the timer.
PS: I'd ordered that Ikea cutting block for that reason about a week before your video. Just got it yesterday. It's a lot beefier than I was expecting. Very nice but it does need a light sanding and some polyurethane.
@@alm5693 timer is shown on the video tho
And - just as Darko dit - a heavy door stopper on top of the units. Cost nearly nothing.
Don't forget the IKEA Lack table + tweak from back in the 80's and 90's. For all the low quality furniture they make, some of their stuff can be quite useful indeed.
Explain?...Thanks
@@galessi1226 The cheap Lack table was popular among owners of the Linn LP12 to put their record player on and the tweak was to cut out holes on the underside of the table. Search online for more details about it.
Now bamboo has become popular and also use for high high-end bicycle frames and they're not cheap.
I will take this idea and upgraded buy two two chopping blocks and recycle some old hockey stick handles and sandwiches in some sand or lead pellets Old skool way adding in Mass. or place an patio cement stone underneath Jays Ikea hack platform. Fireplace chimney blocks makes good cheap speaker stands. Now and on the inside some bracing with low res foam to control the resonant frequency same as a speaker cabinet
Cool suggestion! Thanx Jay 👍👍
Good job Jay, keep them coming!
*Excellent* - now do one on how to clean records and recommend low, high cost, and weird devices you've seen... etc. I've looked up a number of approaches, but until I get my Turntable working (parts on order & chips are in short supply) I can't really test any of them.
HomeGoods sells some awesome butcher blocks. The trick is to find two of a kind.
Watches this for 2 mins, then watches another hifi video for 25 mins 🤣
WOW...good stuff ! it also has channel in case your caps leak it won't drip down to your Hegel.... :)
you are right on perfect timing too!!!
And that's why we love jay !
I use these boards with squash balls cut in half underneath them for isolation. Very effective for the money.
@@crazyprayingmantis5596 Under electronics, no, I don't believe in that too much (unless it's a very microphonic tube amp). Under a turntable it definitely does isolate from outside vibrations. How much you can actually hear that when listening depends on how prone to vibration your setup was in the first place.
Great stuff as always.
i own this already for years,not yet using it for audio.
i use a smaller version for my dac 😎👍
Great quick update 😊
Sorbothane is good but there is much better options for vibration absorbtion. From the ones I know of the best are damp gel pads, several brands on the market. I use Moongel, try it for yourself and let us all know what you think.
Cool! Now if someone can only find me a SIMPLE flipping gear rack hack. All I want is three boards on top of each other.
Thanks for the video, very impressive. Good.
The address for the block connects to a Canadian only Estore. I changed the address to us and they wanted almost $10 shipping they estimated to take 12 days. I ordered them from Amazon next day shipping free and like 1 penny each extra cost. Do a US link to make ur dut buddy.
Hi Jay! Cool idea! But i cant help but ask what are the cables you are using on the Sennheisers which younshowed towards the end of the video? Looks a very flexible cable which i have been wanting to have. Please share the details . thanks
What is up with that BoyuuRange, when are you going to review it? Thanks
Great Tweak!👍👍👍
Good idea
New to audio. What do we need isolation platforms for?
Edit: Nevermind he explains it in the vid
Good vid. BTW, I'm curious: who won the REL subwoofer? Obviously, not me, 'cause I haven't heard anything. I try to keep up with the videos, but I can't. 😕
Every Tuesday? Steady on sir.
Are the feet you linked in the description the same feet you're using in the video? The linked ones look like Rolos vs the half spheres on your video.
Sometime sorbothane work a little to well and deaden sound completely...
How about air bubbles sheets (used in packaging goods for shipping) ? Anyone used that underneath the board ?
Great idea your short video!!!!
Thank's for this great idea, where can I find these feets ?
Things vibrate…..oooooh….oooooohhhhh…….MY! 😵💫
Unfortunately having used these in this way I find they dry out and split. So yes but their lifespan depends on your climate and location? Less than 3 years… in my case. Yes you can throw and replace. Times up. Bye.
You should try out a maple board!
Always sold out in Calgary...
what about the curtains you have linked....the video suggests they damp the sound at an incredible level, is this true?
I saw the Holo Audio DAC in the background. What do yo do with your Version 2 now that Version 3 is released. Are Kitsune offering upgrades?
Close enough love the video I need to go to ikea and get some sorbethane
That one is from amazon. The platform is from ikea
Butyl Rubber Sealant tape/rope works well also. Butyl rubber is used as sound deadening material in cars.
Shoo, hold my beer... I got a hack! You need legit bookshelf speaker stands, but don't want to spend a wad for em? Get those $15 TV stands from Ikea (the ones with the a storage shelf on em) , stand them up with their legs facing your wall and voila...
ALWAYS love your tweaks and informative "feel" for the audio gear...question: How would you compare the sound of the Schiit Aegir amplifier with the NAD C 298, as I'm debating on selling the Aegir and going with the NAD...I hear some describe it as a bit thin?
My kind of video. I struggle to pay attention to anything after 4 or 5 minutes. I'm o.c.d a.d.d. Things have to be perfect but only for a little while.
I got a free set of knives with my last isolation board,,😜
been there, seen that, used that ..... :)
used it under my technics, technics is no more, since then use a garrard 401 with a large plinth,....so no Ikea for me anymore.
What brand is your turntable?
Maybe 2 minutes per channel?
2 minute tips . Where are they
Listen again!
So you have audiophile hifi but can’t afford £200 for a iso board. Hmmmm
Aww more Isolation... I think it's the story of our lives right now.
I don't mean hi-fi 😷
How original! 🤨
IKEA will never get my money.
I dont know how people believe everything they see hear on internet. Putting cutting boards as solutions to vibration control is laughable, none of these ikea hacks come with any data, no before or after measuremnts or any measurmetns at all, just some clowns saying oh it 50% better or its way better or its much better.
This is not how you control vibrations, its a joke.
How about I craft you a platform that is 1 millimeter thick and actually does reduce vibrations,measurably and considerably.
Id suggest you do some research particularly on visco-elastic Polymeres.
Save your cutting board for Salami and onions.
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Copied idea from another youtuber
It's nice to be young. Your enthusiasm is contagious. But, my good, young man .In my opinion, you grossly overuse the word 'create'. Think about it.