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So, “Audio Science Review” really doesn’t like this video

There is a recent video by Steve Guttenberg’s friend Mark on speaker isolation devices. In the video, Mark uses informal listening observations and a microphone and software to try to distinguish differences between different isolation devices with inconclusive results. He then resorts to a blind ABX test with an interesting control related to speaker position.

I really like it for several reasons. One, it is well produced and dryly funny.  Two, it shows a promising approach to blind ABX testing.  I am also in the market for speaker isolation devices.

I posted it on this forum yesterday highlighting the ABX element and nobody commented.  I also posted it on Audio Science Review where it prompted a page plus of discussion including the forum host Amir, most of it skeptical, and then today it was pulled from the site.  The mic drop seemed to really irritate some people there. Or I don’t know, maybe it was something in one of my posts in reply - l’ll never know now.

I am curious what folks on Agon think about the subject matter, the approach and the production values of the video.

https://youtu.be/XAOD3aUfIYQ?si=pYs72o9UAl-21LH6

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I have Oak floors with carpet and pad in my main listening room. I tried all the simple things on my floor standers and noticed very little difference. I then got a couple pieces of granite and put them under my speakers and it made a noticeable difference.   With a promise that I could return them if I didn’t like them, I bought the  Isoacoustics Gaia ones and they really made a very noticeable improvement in my sound stage. 
And I’m not surprised your thread was removed on ASR.  It happens all the time there.

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@knownothing 

I had amazing results with the Gaia ones so I bought some pucks to go under my other equipment and I have to say that I’m really not hearing much if any difference. A few years back I bought a couple of sets of those adjustable spring isolators because my sources, DAC and preamp sit on top of an entertainment center and I can feel the vibrations when I put my hand on top. If they did anything I still can’t say. A couple years later I found an amazing deal on some Isoacoustics Orea Indigo pucks and I jumped on them and last year I bought a set of the bronze pucks.  My preamp has a couple of tubes so that was the first place I tried and I really couldn’t say if I heard a difference.  Kinda a letdown after the huge difference with the Gaia’s.

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Thanks for the validation. 

With all the different ears and beliefs out there, I sometimes question whether I hear what I think I hear. 😀

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