Opinions Golden Sounds DH Cones, I just bought some,they came in today

So I should remove the paper off base of cone. Why were they put there and what is sonic improvement? Can they be put back on if I prefer paper on. Cones are on maple platforms. 

I find that interesting, that is why I left cones under CD player it is very clear and lively with out being bright in the slightest since I adjusted cone placement. Very enjoyable to listen to and don't want to remove them. Pucks will be in Friday and will see what they can do. I see people mentioning springs, I've never used springs where do you buy and place your springs? Directly under component or platform or both? How do you determine stiffness of springs.

I have Baltic birch layer sitting on old audioquest sorbathane Q's which sits on top of 3 inch maple. Next layer of Baltic birch sits on spikes with CD player on top with jumbo DH cones. Can I just buy springs at an industrial supply just curious what they do. Do they need to be stiff or have flex?

I placed the puck minis under tube Preamp it does sound like noise floor goes down maybe images a little better. I also feel like it loses a little air an slows things down a little too much. Loses a little jump factor.  I haven't had time to let pucks settle in or do a lot of listening. The funny thing is some of cables are JPS solid core so it's hard to flip isoacoustics pucks and a tall footer so I'm flipping between ISO pucks and vibrapods to get idea what pucks are doing.. Vibrapods have more air and jump factor. And I'm not the biggest fan of vibrapods by themselves. Boxer and lowrider did you find this with pucks under your preamp or do pucks need days to settle in. 

Boxer what is the weight of your preamp and which pucks did you purchase. My Preamp only weighs 15 pounds and I found it sounds better with 3 mini pucks which is rated at 6 pounds each. Seem like I'm pushing it to the limits. Maybe I'll try 4 pucks and let it settle seems like that would be better weight ratio.

I'm going to put pucks back in and see if they settle in and leave them in for a week or so. I don't want to give up on them yet, I have 30 days.  I'm putting them under a Bruce Moore Preamp with Jupiter copper foil signal caps and Duelund bypass caps. The preamp is very smooth and transparent, maybe its too laid back to match with pucks who knows. I did pull in to a industrial supply today on the way home from work and bought .750 and 1 inch diameter springs ground down ends flat so they don't wobble and stuck under CD player platform in place of spikes with DH cones under player.  Will see what they do for hell of it. I did listen for first 5 minutes while everything was cold, maybe Im crazy but sounds like things may sound bigger/larger, I could be hearing things. I will listen later tonight see what happens.

I put brass footers in place of Isoacoustic pucks and everything became transparent and refined. The DH Cones stayed under CD player. The blurred effect was gone with pucks gone everything had body again and the slow veiled sound was gone. I called Glen Carol Audio to check on some other footers and asked him if he carried the isoacoustics pucks and he said he tried them out and said he heard the same thing I did under components. He did mentioned if a system was bright the pucks may work. For my system they just didn't work and will be shipping them back tomorrow due to 30 day return policy. The DH cones are keepers and I found a set of used supers online and went ahead and bought them. I did put some DIY springs under a platform and like what they did I may order some from Geoff after I play with them for a few days.

Yea, I was bummed they didn't work too. All the great reviews I was sure they were going to work. Maybe the minis aren't the way to go but my Preamp only weighs 15 pounds. I did pull some monitors out of the closet before I boxed them up and they did make a difference vs blue tak. I did put them under CD player and got same results. For some reason my gear likes hard footers. Brass, Nordost quasars, aluminum. One of the strangest things was when I put audioquest sorbathane under CD player highs became overly bright you would think it would be dull. So I guess every system and component acts different depending what goes under it.

Music direct has smalls for $25 golden sound still has has 100 mediums for $60, just email them, I found my large and jumbos used