Appogg isolation platform under preamp

Audiobuilder,
Congratulations on your newborn!! I hope all is well with your newest arrival, if it's your first prepare for life changing events but they're all worth it!

Well just as I feared one of the platforms has been removed from my system(went out for another to try), snatched right out from under my preamp-I miss it already!

I am currently rearranging my system to try and get the platform back under my Preamp. The difference when the platform was removed was easily noticable... :(

John

Audio builder,
Did you get a chance to audition the platforms? So far I am loving mine and I think I may have gotten lucky and Aaron has forgotten about me!! If he shows up to pick them up I think I'll just pretend I'm not home. Oh wait, he's not on this forum is he??? ;)

John

Audio Builder,
I was surprised to see your post here on these platforms as I currently am lucky enough to be auditioning these babies.

I too was at the dealers open house(Man I sure liked those Eben 3 speakers, wow!!) as well and after speaking to the builder/designer turns out he lives very close to me. I managed to talk him into bringing one of those platforms to my home. He first had me listen to a few of my reference songs and then he put one under my preamp-WOW! I mean right off the bat I heard the improvement. I think the most noticeable improvement is the noise floor or lack thereof. I didn't think I had much noise that was until this baby was dropped into my system! It really helped take the bite out of my Martin Logans, very enjoyable/musical.

I have never been much of a "platform" type guy in the past due to their cost and to be honest I just haven't heard that much of an improvement, but this platform is different. I heard the improvement right away. There's no doubt, it works very very well.

Man in the last couple of weeks I've been fortunate enough to either purchase some very fine products, or have the opportunity to try out some fine products-some of which I intend to purchase as soon my poor wallet recovers from my recent splurges! The Shuguan Treasure tubes, VAC PHI 110, MBL CDP and the Appogg platform. Jeezz I need to win the lottery soon....

John

There are some great products starting to come out of Austin, the "Music City" is really starting to live up to it's name IMHO, maybe it should be renamed Audio City. ;)

Audiobuilder,
Well the designer/builder stopped by with another surprise, an arm full of the darn things! He put one under my amp as well as the power supply and yes sir, it does make a difference under your amp. It seems that no matter where it is applied it pretty much does the same thing; cleaner/blacker back ground, less noise and just allows the music to flow with ease for lack of a better word/description. It appears that they fall under the catagory of "the more the merrier".

At the moment there is one under almost every piece of my gear, I was thinking "well how nice, coming by personally and putting them in my system". Yeah, now I know what they're up too-it's a trap! They are setting me up so when he comes to take them back and I can't stand it without them I'll be forced to buy em! Damn them.... ;)

John

I was speaking with the designer and he mentioned that he felt the sorobothane wasn't responsible for the great absorbtion but rather it is the "goop" that does most of the work. What ever it is the darn stuff works wonders, now I'm going to have to buy a couple of these things. My wife loves what one of them did for her turntable and I'm really digging the improvement with one under my preamp! Let me tell you from experience; DO NOT let them slip one into your system "just so you can try it out", you'll suddenly find your wallet a little bit lighter.

John