Hey Roscoe, you getting all fancy on us now?
You might need more mass in the plinth to get it really quiet. That motor throws off some vibrations. Have you tried to run it? Low voltage operation will somewhat calm the vibration as will damping the springs that hold the motor and decoupling the motor wiring loom from the chassis.
Since I don't have saws, not to mention skillz, I enlisted a guy I know on Audio Karma to make me a nice super pimped-out base for my trusty 301.
http://audiokarma.org/forums/index.php? ... ld.699113/I had a 60 lb Japanese base with 3 arm locations but sold it before I left Texas. Might as well get a nice one cause I'll probably keep it till I die. I love this turntable.
Lately swamped with TT experiments...also picked up a monster RoK T-12 motor unit and a rare pre-TD-124 Thorens motor unit, see here
http://www.lencoheaven.net/forum/index. ... ic=22409.0I will probably ghetto fabricate plinths for these until I decide whether I wish to go further with them. The RoK T-12/T-43 is supposed to be killer on jazz and funky stuff according to my bud Schick, who just traded me an arm for a T-43.