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The Best Isolation/ Vibration Footers per component - what's your experience?

Hi everyone,

There are probably a dozen of threads out there on Isolation/ Vibration footers out there, but there hasn't been thus far one been that combines the following two assumptions:

1. Isolation/ Vibration effectiveness differs per type of component (from source to speaker).
2. The above with Most Popular brands available as per July 2020.

Some of the most recognised brands thus far:
  
  • Arya Audio
  • Artesania Audio
  • Aurios
  • Black Diamond Racing
  • Critical Mass Systems
  • Gingko
  • Harmonic Resolution Systems
  • Harmonix
  • Iso-Acoustics
  • Shun Mook
  • Silent Running Audio
  • Star Sound Technologies
  • Stillpoints
  • Symposium
  • Townshend

The reason for starting this thread is that in the past few months I have been reading that the Critical Mass Centerstage 2 footers are beating all or most of the above solutions from the other named brands. However, it seems that the Arya Audio Revopods are also beating most of the brands in some high-end select forums and groups as well. 

Do you use and or have/ had any experience with the above and where did you place them and why?

Here is my setup currently.

1. Source/ Network player: Star Sound Technologies Sistrum platform
2. Pre-Amp: No footer yet (Artesania Audio rack)
3. Amplifier: No footer yet (Artesania Audio rack)
4. Power conditioner: Harmonic Resolution Systems Nimbus & HRS platform footers
5. Power supplies for source: Stillpoints
6. Router: Stillpoints
7. Speakers: Stillpoints

I found out that this works the best in my system, but would like to know your experience as I found that using these footers and their effectiveness really depends on the component. Specifically, I would like to hear your experience with Arya Audio and Centerstage 2 footers?
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mahgister
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Make your own and pretend they sound great.HELLO!!
Do you think that my 2 years incremental increase is incremental addition placebos one after the others?
If so, how do you explain the complete transformation of the same components in a 2 years period? Hallucinations ?

Or do you put your faith in marketting new electronic components only?

Or are you envious of a very low cost hi-Fi ?

Or are you sceptic about this very real possibility because you are unable to create it for yourself, except by paying big amount of money ?

Or have you put your only faith in measurements and nothing else?

Or do you think like some that audio is synonymous with adding " electronic components" for any problems that manifest ?

Or do you think that it is impossible for someone to solve problems in an audio system without buying some "specialized" trade-mark only components?


Or do you like to pick a post at random and object to it without any reason to except for expressing your urging " mood " right now ? HELLO !

« Some object, other breathe... » -Groucho Marx

« Make your rant and pretend they only pretend...» - anonymus demagogue
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mahgister
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+1 regarding millercarbon’s recommendation to check out Mahgister’s system. Never seen anything like it: https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/8221
My system is an experiment in the making....I will prefer to own millercarbon system, but the money were lacking... :)

But dont be fooled by the appearance, my audio system is fully satisfying and i will live with it happilly...My discovery is the embeddings of an audio system is all that matters....The price, the look, are secondary elements....

Upgrading is often an illusory response coming from lacks and defects that cannot be remedied by a piece of electronic equipment....

How to embed a system is the key....

In this thread the question is first how to mechanically controls the internal resonances and second how to relatively isolate from the external vibrations.... This is only ONE of the THREE embeddings, and the least powerful but a necessary double task that ask for more than meet the eye for his solution....

My particular low cost answer to this task is the least refine response in my homemade triple embeddings solutions to this day.... In the future i want to add springs and quartz sand bed to the rest of my solutions for this particular embedding task ( the sandwiches with layers of different materials is my only solutions for now and that work well for now)....
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mahgister
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Anyway my audio room is very satisfying but not beautiful like yours except for my children’s son...." mad scientist lair" for them....

I am glad now that i never had the money to upgrade..... :)


« Poverty is the mother of science»- Homo erectus 
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mahgister
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As crazy as I know it looks,
millercarbon, everybody will laugh at my last homemade creation.... a reverse engineering of a costly tweak...

" Twin fans combing sound" room enhancement.....

Cost: peanuts, 2 unused hot summer fans....


:)

But anybody can laugh,

My motto is, listen with your ears, create your own heaven....Hifi cost peanuts....If you want....

By the way i believe you for the 1.3 millions system comparison.....I know that firsthand....

Electronic components design are mature design without great impact for the last 50 years except some....The greatest impact comes, not so much  from  the choice of an electronic component over an another one (upgrading myth) but comes from the embeddings controls methods.... I discover that by myself with listening experiments....

P.S. i never post a photo of my grid of stones.... Too crazy.....You can see only a small part of it in my room next to the Schumann generators.... :)
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mahgister
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i swear by my sandwich, because of results and low costs:

quartz feet, granite plate, sorbothane, granite plate, 4 cork underglasses small plate ,bamboo plate, sorbothane, speakers + concrete load ...

Relative isolation and very good coupling/decoupling resonance controls because of the varieties of the different materials...

All my gear is on my desk on top of these sandwiches...Cost very low....

:)
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