I thought I'd take a shot at the Garrard 301 idler drive turntable. This is what I came up with.

I stacked two pieces of 8 quarters hard maple (which made the plinth aprox. 4" thick overall) and added the Zebrawood surround. It fits the 'table and motor very tightly and weighs about 30lbs. I didn't want a totally dead overdamped sound, and like maple wherever I have used it, so there ya go.

I borrowed from the Cain and Cain design and built a decoupled Tone arm pod. It uses four pieces of stacked Baltic Birch ply that is hollowed out and filled with lead shot. It is topped with Ebony and is adjustable forsetting cartridge pivot distance. The whole thing sits on BDR cones and another 4" slab of Hard Maple.

The Triplanar is awsome, and the whole rig is absolutely stunning..... I really wasn't expecting it to sound this good. It pretty much blew my VPI Aries away..... Just crazy.

Anyway, I'm loving it and have something I helped create...... Pretty cool.