Vibration Isolators


Do vibration isolators really help CD sound performance? Which are the best ones to use, and can they be used in a stack format?
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Showing 3 responses by warrenh

You cannot isolate vibration. It's everywhere. The music, itself; vibrations in the air. Sound is vibration. It's ok. Let it vibrate and send the resonances to the floor. I do not understand the hoopla with these vibropads. Man, I hate to leave.. I'll be back for more, but I'm on a prep, and my students call.
Somebody explain this to me. You have your speakers, amps, everything on these bearings, vibropods, sandbags,concrete, and other esoteric whatevers. Now where is the isolation? Are the resonances from the sounds put out by your speakers airborne? How do you keep that from your components? You can't. Better to couple everything. Send all those resonances to the floor. Vibration can't be stopped. There are many good vibrations. Why would you want to absorb them? Sand, lead, the like, don't differentiate between the two. This new speaker support system I just purchased from Star Sound Technologies is based on this principle of resonance transference. I am still in awe of what I hear from my speakers. I am a tough sell, with these golden ears of mine. Can you relate? More about these stands in a bit. Back to you with more.. Got's to go and run. Be gentle with me.
When all your electronics,speakers, even cables, vibrate from the sonic energy of the music in your listening room: where do those vibrations go now that you have them so beautifully isolated from the floor? No place to go. It's when you give them somewhere to go, your music will really open up. My subwoofer came more,alive, focused, tighter, and extended when I placed them on a Sistrum Speaker (Star Sound Technologies) platform. This is a beautiful platform consisting of three audiopoints (1 1/2") facing point up, and three matching audiopoints facing downward going to the floor, held together by a lovely metal plate, with a musical note in the center. The three pairs of points are couple together through internal threads. The metalurgy of these audiopoints is their, soon to be, patented recipe. I became a true believer in resonance transference. I have since, coupled all my electronics with audiopoints, including the wood stand everthing sits on. Four points with threads are screwed into the bottom of the woood stand. Nothing is on the stand that will absorb resonances. I don't even leave a cd jacket there when listening. I plan on buying their Sistrum Rack System eventually which does what I'm doing, in a killer, scientific/physical and aesthetically pleasing way. Robert over at Audiopoints.com is the man when it comes to resonance transference, or at least, explaining it very clearly. I'm going to talk more about the speaker support system I'm using soon. It's drop dead amazing.