Personally, I wonder if it's not just a personal choice more than one way being better than another.
I used the Sistrum stand for years and really liked it. I've now switched to HRS M3 isolation bases and find them equally satifying in my system.
It seems that the bottom line is that as the sound waves bounce around your room and come back to hit your components. You want them to vibrate or be affected as little as possible. This keeps the vibrations from adding noise to the musical signal. How you accomplish that is your choice.
Something else to maybe consider is the size of your room. In my 10' x 12' room there's a lot more signal bouncing around than in a 16' x 20' room with an open end.
Chuck
I used the Sistrum stand for years and really liked it. I've now switched to HRS M3 isolation bases and find them equally satifying in my system.
It seems that the bottom line is that as the sound waves bounce around your room and come back to hit your components. You want them to vibrate or be affected as little as possible. This keeps the vibrations from adding noise to the musical signal. How you accomplish that is your choice.
Something else to maybe consider is the size of your room. In my 10' x 12' room there's a lot more signal bouncing around than in a 16' x 20' room with an open end.
Chuck