We have designed and constructed an improved two-dimensional X pendulum vib
ration-isolation table. It achieved a lower resonant frequency (7 s) than p
revious prototypes, and the effects of many parasitic elastic resonances ha
ve been reduced by careful balancing, leading to much improved vibration is
olation around a few hertz. (C) 1999 American Institute of Physics. [S0034-
6748(99)00902-8].