Isolation Devices: Any Good Ones?


I'm considering some Isolation devices to place under my Esoteric X-05 CD player. I have actualy tried Stillpoins Ultra SS ($675 for 3) and they did make a difference. I'm interested to hear from those of you who have tried others like Wave Kinetics ($700 for 4), KWO Super Heated Metal Foam Pedestals ($415 for 3), Nordost Sort Kones ($260 for 4) or any others that markedly helped vibration control. Thanks!
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I use fish bowls filled with liquid mercury. It takes a while to break in but when it does you loose all sense of connection with anything at all related to the transmission of musical harmony. Tom
Sabai

You can smother in sand and so are the affects with it's use in audio. Of course the same can be said and heard with MDF and all its glue glory. Tom
The laugh is the playing with materials that only lead to a dead end. Nothing reactive or geometrically conductive in a bag of sand or a box of lead. These materials have a high saturation point but also have a very slow time release of that same energy. They cause much coloration to the device to which they are applied . Nothing musically pleasing about these materials. Tom
Hopefully you will see that you are listening to darkness in a near vacuum. Tom
You may venture forward by replacing all the vessels of sand with the same type container using steel shot or brass or bronze. These materials are reactive in nature. You should also experiment with the fill quantity of each. Overfilling will cause the system to darken suddenly. The container for these materials should also be reactive by design. The container should be mechanically grounded to provide an exit point for the resonance collected to vacate quickly. Tom

I have a  current patent standing here in the USA for the application of bearings either as a resonance enhancement or to over damp and shut down vibrations.

Size and quantity dictate the application and outcome.

The patent applies to footers rods and tubes as used in audio components as well as some acoustic string instruments. Also applied to some cables .Works so well that others have violated this patent at least by shipping their product from over seas to the USA. 

TomD

Tone Acoustics.

How long does it take for kinetic energy to heat up a rod full of s110 or s270 at a Frequency of 1000hz and how long is the rise and fall time. Heat is not the change of energy heard in the designs that may use my patent. TomD 

Isolation can only exist in the absence of matter .

So your right..without that fact in mind it's all just a game. TomD