Appreciate it and you are very welcome. What you said about sibilance rings true. That's a bit of audio humor, a lot of what we call "sibilance" is ringing. There is also a character I call hardness, when the sound isn't quite strident but neither is it smooth and natural, it is hard or it can also be thought of as glare, but whatever you call it springs in general - and Townshend springs especially - get rid of it. The result is really wonderful!
Haven't tried Platforms but for anyone interested the Pods also work great under amps and turntables, etc. Costs a little less and can save some space because the Pods fit directly under the component not under the components footers, so this makes Pods a bit more low profile.
I'm with you on "it depends" which component will benefit the most. I thought for sure it would be my turntable. Yes indeed it was a lot better. For sure. But under my tube amp was, I think most would say way more obviously better. The improvement with the table was more cleaning up resonances that were coloring the tone and hiding the timbre of certain instruments. That's nice, but the kind of nice that sinks in over time. The tube amp improvement was more sparkling clean fast dynamics, made the darn thing sound like it had twice the power or control or something like that. Podiums under the Moab gave me improvements like both of those, so it does have the edge with my gear- but not by much!
Really good to hear your experience. This is what I have been saying for years, don't chase component upgrades until you have first controlled vibration and tweaked to get the most from what you already have. Mahgister been saying pretty much the same thing too by the way. Because: it works! Thanks!
Haven't tried Platforms but for anyone interested the Pods also work great under amps and turntables, etc. Costs a little less and can save some space because the Pods fit directly under the component not under the components footers, so this makes Pods a bit more low profile.
I'm with you on "it depends" which component will benefit the most. I thought for sure it would be my turntable. Yes indeed it was a lot better. For sure. But under my tube amp was, I think most would say way more obviously better. The improvement with the table was more cleaning up resonances that were coloring the tone and hiding the timbre of certain instruments. That's nice, but the kind of nice that sinks in over time. The tube amp improvement was more sparkling clean fast dynamics, made the darn thing sound like it had twice the power or control or something like that. Podiums under the Moab gave me improvements like both of those, so it does have the edge with my gear- but not by much!
Really good to hear your experience. This is what I have been saying for years, don't chase component upgrades until you have first controlled vibration and tweaked to get the most from what you already have. Mahgister been saying pretty much the same thing too by the way. Because: it works! Thanks!