Vibration Control


Why do solid state audio electronics with no moving parts need or benefit from vibration control? 
 

It makes perfect sense that turntables, CD transports, R2R tape decks, loudspeakers & tubed electronics (w/ potentially micro phonic tubes) might all benefit from various methods of vibration control or mitigation but I don’t see why anything else would. Any thoughts??

jonwolfpell

Showing 1 response by erik_squires

I find this subject quite frustrating if not maddening.  It would be easy to demonstrate whether or not vibration control is necessary or not with a variety of solid state components and yet... I've yet to see this happen.  I mean, how hard is it to put a PA speaker in front of an amplifier and measure the effects, or lack thereof? 

A long long time ago I owned a Radio Shack phono preamp.  It literally rang like a bell.  Probably due to cheap ceramic caps, but besides that singular piece of gear I've never heard this happen again nor have I seen it demonstrated in solid state gear.  What if, for instance, vibration testing led to better component selection?  Or what if we found out it doesn't matter below 150 dB?  We may never know because  any testing in this field has not become apparent.