Placement of phono amp, headphone amp etc

I place my Elevator, Reflex M and Solo UL side by side on a granite chopping board atop the rack which houses the rest of the electronics!
The granite seems to work in isolating, particularly the Elevator, from the stuff below. I had hum/buzz problems initially. Cured with Graham's and tg's help.
My turntable(s) is nicely isolated on a dedicated shelf fixed firmly to a solid wall above the equipment rack/housing far enough away not to be affected by anything but not too high to make operation difficult and within easy reach of connecting cables, particularly mains.
I'm more than happy with the arrangement and it's results.


Edited by oldagetraveller - 01 Mar 2012 at 3:20pm

Oldagetraveller and James, thanks for your thoughts. All advice is appreciated, I have much to learn, and I would prefer not to reinvent the wheel. Always best (& cheapest in the long run, though higher initial outlay normally) to try and get it right first time.

Out of interest, does what you mount the turntable on need to not add any additional resonce? I am most probably out of my depth here, but I thought the turntable base ( not sure of the technical name) was chosen for the property of the materials not to introduce resonce, or resonance the human ear hears. Which is why so many today are made of MDF. And the fact that any resonce it has is very u inform. Whereas good old fashioned wood is all over the place due to the varying grain structure and materials like stainless steel and granite also resonate at the wrong frequency.
Any thoughts/ advice? Again I appreciate go with what you like the sound of, but it is always worth trying to reduce the number of options to consider. :-)