looking for best isolation platform for CD player

The particular vibration isolation table that I have used is a Halcyonics unit similar to their current model Mod-1M. Check it out on their web site: www.halcyonics.com.

Although I remain skeptical about the necessity to isolate CD players, I can tell you that this vibration isolation table does a superb job.

Vibration isolation is not a problem unique to audio. At work we use a 8-inch dish of mercury as a reflective surface for optical measurements of true horizontal. (The mercury surface is a perfect level reference). However, the slightest vibration causes ripples on the mercury which makes the optical measurements difficult. Even with the mercury dish on a 3000 pound granite slab on a pier sunk 60 feet into the ground we had ripples.

Our problem was solved by an active (electronic) vibration isolation table, similar to one that you can check out at:
www.optima-research.com/Herz/active.htm.
If I recall correctly it cost us about $3000. I can't see needing this for a CD player, but it could be good for a LP turntable. Be the first on your block to have one!

Geoffkait...How then do CD players work so well in automobiles, and even in portable players while joging?

Theaudiotweek...Please explain how error correction has any adverse effect on sound. An error CORRECTION code enables recovery of the original data, as if no error had occured. This is true up to the point where the error rate exceeds the correction capability inherent in the degree of redundancy in the code, after which the system may resort to interpolation of corrupted data, and that might be audible.

As I have mentioned before, believe it or not, the purpose of error correction is not to correct errors. It is to enable the data transfer bandwidth to be increased by running the hardware so fast that some (correctable) errors are expected to occur. You give up some bandwidth to data redundancy, but you more than get it back by running faster.

Sean...Can you explain it? "Working optimally" (your words) means that error-free data transfer is happening at the greatest possible bandwidth. In practice this means that correctable errors are occuring. Reducing the error rate can't hurt, but unless the unreduced rate is more than the encoding is designed to handle, it will have no effect on the final result.