Vibration isolation or absorption?


You see those pointy things at the bottom of a speaker that are very very sharp.  Arguably a weapon in the wrong hands.  And then you see those same pointy things inserted into a disk.

So the pointy things, aka ‘spikes’ , can Channel vibration elsewhere and away from the components and speakers, or they can isolate it.

Seems channeling vibration away from a component/ speaker, which I guess is absorption, is preferable.

Is this true? And why do they keep saying isolation.

 

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There has already been a fererence to laws that govern ancillaries, that are adopted for use to manage a produced energy.

The effectiveness of managing produced energy and the perceived effects of it, by use of an ancillary is open to question, as most adopt a item, and it might at the best, in many cases being subjectively evaluated. This type of evaluation is the one all methods I have adopted over the years have been exposed to, for assessing their value as a addition.

The Law of the Universe is that energy can not be destroyed, Energy is constant and will always be passed on to form other forms of Transferal/Dissipation.

A Wave Gently rolling to the Shoreline, runs out of its typical 1000+ mile Journey, the energy contained now becomes a Breaker Wave, A Foam (sound) and moves Tons of Sand Particulate. These three immediate changes are how the Wave Transfers it contained energy.

In the use of HiFi equipment there are energies present, and typically the methods used to learn of the presence, is usually to attempt to detect how the sound being produced in a particular environment is being impacted on. This can be done by the ear only or by using Science and Tools to discover the presence of energy and produce a method to manage it.

There are numerous methods available to Transfer/Dissipate energies believed to being created. There are not many who have extensively tried the bulk of methods that can be adopted. It is possible that if a change is discovered as a result of adopting a ancillary, this will be maintained and investigation ceases.

From my experiences and having tried a selection of different structures and materials to produce the structures, a HiFi System and Speakers can show there are significant benefits to be had, when mounted on a Structure that is able to create the perception that certain frequencies are with a improved attraction, along with the

Details, Micro Details and Envelope having a increased presence during a replay.

Owned equipment can take on this improvement in presentation, if there is a discovery made of a method to support equipment in a particular environment. This might prove beneficial, as the idea of considering a costly upgrade for HiFi Devices, may be no longer required.

Experiences encountered have shown there is not a ubiquitous support structure to fix all systems/environments. There is a need to experiment, which will bring the rewards.

 

The statement is not a question, it is a prompt to encourage further investigation into how a variant of a in use support structure can produce an improved impact on the Sound being produced.

I have a substantial collection of Footers from Spikes, Pads and Suspension, with Solid Tech Feet of Silence being the most expensive.

I have used numerous Sub Plinth Material from Natural through to Manmade, with a Panzerholz Sub Plinth being the most impressive used to date.

All that I own has been loaned into other systems, and to date if there is a assembly without a weight constraint for Devices that can be claimed to have been very well received, it is a Two Teir Assembly of Panzerholz Boards with  9 x Audio Technica 616 Footers in use as separators.

In my own system, the above assembly gets better, with Feet of Silence, separating the Top Teir and HiFi Device, but as stated, this has a constraint on weight that can be supported.

The feet suggested by Elliot are owned by myself in both Cork and a Blue Sylomer Foam. These are used in industry as well, that are designed to absorb energy and reduce noise from machinery. I have used them under Speakers mainly and they do assist with tightening a Bass Note. The AT 616, are able to improve on these, but at a considerable cost.

Friends who were impressed with their loan of AT 616, and were put of by the difficulty in acquiring them, have proven to themselves, though comparisons, that the Iso Acoustics Gaia Footers are as close to parity to the 616 as can be wanted. ,