Stillpoints


Which devices benefit more from the stillpoints? cd-players, power amplidiers, loudspeakers, tube-, solidstate?
apopira2

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CD players or transports yes! - because they do a great job of draining off micro-vibrations from mechanical devices. Amps (even tube amps) I think not so much. Ditto turntables. I have mine under my Wadia transport, and incredible as the TEAC VRDS mechanism is, the Stillpoints enabled some very bad discs to track properly -- and that's the only evidence I have because I couldn't hear any improvements in sonics (doesn't mean there weren't any ;-)
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Apopira, are you referring to the mini-risers, or the full size ones? And what are you using the SP's for/under? I'm very knowledgable about using Stillpoints as well as the Stillpoints Component Stands.
Ebm (and others ;--)
So much depends on how the Stillpoints are actually implemented/installed, meaning:

Pointed up or down?
Using what accessories?
Are the accessories fastened or just "sitting there"?
Are they in a configuration of three or four?

I find too many people just "throw a set of Stillpoints" under something (because that's about all you can do with most other devices) and expect miracles. Stillpoints can indeed do miracles, but the user has to do the work of discovering the best way to install/configure them for a given application.

I have a friend in the Tucson Symphony Orchestra who uses them under his amp and power conditioners and, on the Component Stands, under his speakers and individually between the low and high frequency sections of the speakers. (Dat's a lotta Stillpoints!) AND (with all that!) claims he can hear the difference between pointing them up or down!!!

Who am I to argue?