Best Of

After Rich breathed new life into my LT-30, I've listened to more vinyl in the past week than I had in the last handful of months. The turntable has performed flawlessly, but its feet were blowing out/cracking, and generally not attractive enough for how I want it to present.

The only "Googleable" feet for this TT are some silver aluminum ones that didn't appeal to me. Researching a bit harder, I found an open-box deal on a set of Isoacoustics Gaia III Neo feet. These are made as speaker isolation feet for speakers up to 70 pounds, but I thought they'd serve my purpose. They come with three different thread adaptors and the M6/1.0mm pitch ones match the threading on the stock feet on the LT-30.

Each foot is easy to adjust height on after installation, making leveling the turntable simple. Easy to install and happy with the new boots!

With original feet:


A new foot:


One new, three old showing their age:


All dressed up:

Rotated into my main system a Technics SL-J33 turntable that I rescued from a downsizing friend. It's a linear tracking, automatic, quartz direct drive system with programmable playing capabilities. It scans records for size, identifies the cuts, and can be instructed to play them in select order. Also equipped with a Grado Green cartridge. Works and sounds great! Really nice for free.