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im looking for like a rubber/foam pad to put my monitors on. when i play my record player it starts humming the second i drop the needle quietly then it gets louder and louder and louder and eventually gives a real low bassy feedback. the vibrations of the monitors are shaking the shit out of the computer desk which the record player is sitting on too.

i searched "foam pad" "isolating foam pad"

and all i get is the shit you stick on your walls to sound proof.

does this kind of thing exist? if so links ?

the monitors came with rubber pads on the bottom but they are mega thin.

I've had good results using just a folded up tea towel (or similar).

so thats the best shortscale can come up with ? a fucking towel ?


thanks for the suggestion paul. no thanks to the other thousands of shortscale members who contribute zero to the forum / my problems

Rubber hockey pucks
Blue foam padding used for camping
Cork sheets
Old piece of carpet

I think the important bit is that you probably don't need to spend money on expensive isolating foam, because that's something that will have been designed for studio use to do a fairly specific job.

There are probably any number of things lying around you that will work fine and can be put together in such a way as to look discrete. Shave your cats, put the hair in sandwich bags. Hey presto: Isolation pads.

Get some 1/2" foam in whatever size you want from a specialty store. Google revealed a bunch in Buffalo. It won't be much. Better yet, most of those shops will give you scraps for free.

Put it on top of another monitor. That'd isolate the top one.

Vertical stereo and all that.

just use rubber sandals.

Office-style carpet samples do the trick and are thin enough to stay level just fine. Good stuff.