Improving a stone rack

I have used Granite for many Years as Sub Plinths for Audio Equipment on Racks and as a Cabinet Speaker Sub Plinth.

I find I prefer the sonic that has been created when using it, when the Granite is a Sub Sub Plinth or a Sandwich Material in a Build up of Materials to create a Plinth or Sub Sub Plinth.

For Speakers I always uses a Spike Coupling and Pneumatic Footer to create some suspension.

On the equipment Rack, I always use Cork as the Isolation footer for the Granite when in a Sandwich or as a Sub Sub Plinth.

Other Materials used in conjunction with the Granite will have  a selection of Footers tried out to discover which tidies up the sonic to a standard I am happy to experience.

Today, my usage of Granite is seemingly being superseded by the use of Phenolic Resin Densified Wood Board Materials, such as the Board Materials from the Brands Permali or Panzerholz.

For a Telescope there are also a Tripod Footer that will further absorb energies in the Slab and should give a further improvement to the resolution.

Some even put kiln dried sand in a Bicycle Inner Tube and snake it around the Body, this is also a trick used in the past to improve resolution.

IS is a advancing modern concept as a design and will remove the need for some of these old tricks.     

'IS' is in relation to optics - Image Stabilisation

Yes - The Telescope 

For Static Tripod, I adapted a Hollow Tube Civils Engineer Surveyors Tripod.

I stripped the Tripod back to singular parts, plugged the bottom of the Tubes/Forms and filled with a Liquid Rubber.

The deadness of this design is substantially attractive, but quite heavy, hence the remain in one place usage.