Vibration - What are the Main Sources?


A current thread discussing the best tweaks gave consistently high ranking for component isolation. I am curious to know where all the vibration is coming from that we are addressing with isolation. I understand that high volume listening can create significant vibration, but for the sake of this discussion let's assume we are listening at moderate levels. Can the vibrations from moderate sound levels affect the quality of sound? Are there other common significant sources of vibration that we are guarding against that can dramatically affect sound?
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Would you like to see the letter from the Washington State Health Department dismissing the fraudulent complaints against my license by haters on this website? Would you like to see the letter signed by mijostyn, thecarpathian, edgewound, mapman, nonoise and jetter? The threatening one I received just before the Health Dept notice? If you think it is tiresome reading my digs maybe imagine if half a dozen nut jobs were obsessed with and messing with you to this extent. One of them brags about how he will keep coming back again and again, different user name, different IP address. Sound familiar?
I knew it. He's completely lost his mind, or was long gone all along. If MC has been posting BS, junk science, and misinformation about Covid on other public sites, someone took notice and may have reported him. It could have very well been a co-worker or acquaintance who knows he works in a hospital, which would make even more sense.

MC is not shy about touting how he's a medical professional and knows things and has seen things in hospitals that are false. This tactic has been trending on the right wing sites for some time: to write, post,  or call into talk shows and start spouting off the exact same nonsense. It's part of their script and people have been getting busted over it.

But to come out on this site and accuse others here who politically disagree with him for some sympathy and to raise the ire and hate of others who think like him is down there with the lowest of the lows.

It's one thing to constantly lose arguments on stupid political beliefs but to get some kind of payback by defaming members here is just sick and pathetic.

All the best,
Nonoise

It's not going to work, MC. I've already chewed out Admin about your defamation and removing my post which succinctly addressed your false claims. It must really hurt to know that someone close to you turned you in and now you've decided to defame your betters, here.

What a piece of work you are. You dug your own hole. Live in it.

All the best,
Nonoise
Go look at all the removed posts.
Like the ones that I wrote in response to your defamation, that you conveniently had removed? Do you think that puts you in a better light?
You do realize that it's been read by many before you had it deleted.

All the best,
Nonoise


I have no doubt that pauly is as dense as he sounds. Too bad he allows posts by MC that have zero relevance to audio and yet allows that foul mouth libeler to go there time and again. 

And then, so as to look balanced and sane, laments the lack of decorum. What bald faced hypocrisy.

All the best,
Nonoise
@mijostyn, as much as I deplore the guy, signing some "letter" is the last thing I’d do. Considering what a narcissist MC is with his flair for theatrics, making stuff up, trying to recruit a fanboy base here, and his penchant for shameless self promotion, I wouldn’t put it past him to have fabricated said letter himself.

It’s an old tactic of the right wing. He’s just following the formula laid out by his heroes and probably pollutes all the sites he’s on with his agenda. To that point, I hope and pray he’s on Parlor: that right wing site that promotes itself as censor free and a place for those of like mind to post.

Turns out, the owner of Parlor notified the feds over 50 times that something bad was brewing before the Jan. 6th insurrection and no one heeded their warnings. After the fact, Parlor turned over all user information to the feds so they could do a deep dive into them. If MC really got any letter, he could very well have been the idiot behind his own undoing.

And as for Tekton, don’t forget that Glenn Beck was one of the first who posted positive reviews of Tekton and with MC being of like mind (and probably a rabid follower) just ate it up and ran with it.

All the best,
Nonoise
Nice reveal. So your hatred of MC was simply politics all along. Of course it was
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Talk about jumping to conclusions. If that give you solace, so be it.
Live your simple life.
seems to me, any valid complaint questioning a public health license would include some level of vetting of people making subject complaint. Unless they were named Rudy.

Seems also to me to cross the border into Libel. Unless of course, like King Dotard “ it was all a joke “
A big 10-4 on that. Just using handles from an audio site would have just as much bearing as signing it with Dancer, Prancer, Sleepy, Sneezy, Grumpy, etc. Any communication from one member to another reveals the sender.

And as for the libel part, one would have to sue him directly in court as this sorry site still has his libel up there after I flagged it. Funny how accurate posts that contradict the libel are taken down as soon as they are flagged but the lies are allowed to stay up for way too long.

It seems that A’gon is immune from any tort due to the Communications Decency Act which prohibits suing entities for defamation and they seem to know it.

All the best,
Nonoise




rubbed the wrong way nonoise?
Nope.
Interesting that you chose such a specific injury, close to home perhaps? Repetitive strain injury in your past in the shoulder joint perhaps nonoise?
Yup.

Tammy just wrote me that she took down all the posts that resulted from MCs slander, including his slander. I hope she has a stern talk with him.

All the best,
Nonoise
Nobody “takes” vibrations out of cabinets. Cabinets are designed to resist resonances, and by coupling them to a large mass (read, the floor) their propensity to resonate is further reduced.
It all depends on the design. Tonian Labs are some of the finest and most realistic speakers you'll hear and their cabinets resonate like the body of an instrument. 

All the best,
Nonoise
It does NOT affect the sound, it is just an annoyance.
Care to explain the logic behind that one?
The author of that article states:

Likewise, I can't bear to hear/ read actual snake oil vendors claiming that you'll get "cleaner highs", "more authority in the bass" or any of the other stupid things you may read elsewhere. The purpose is to stop transformers from growling (usually at no or light load). There is no magic, and it doesn't improve anything other than reduce the acoustic noise from the transformer(s). Anyone who claims otherwise is probably lying.
 Sounds like something you latch onto. Very self reinforcing.

All the best,
Nonoise

Electronic components do benefit from isolation. Using Isoacustic Oreas made a big difference in the focus and clarity of the sound. Why one would proclaim it wouldn't doesn't deserve comment, actually.

I say this as they will always chime in with their very negative proclamations, as if from on high, in the hopes of discouraging anyone from even trying. Makes one wonder what motivates them so say such things.

All the best,
Nonoise
@rixthetrick, no worries as I wasn't offended at all. I just didn't understand where you were coming from. No biggie.

All the best,
Nonoise
It’s sad that a topic worth discussing gets sidelined by the same few posters.
What a patently silly thing to say, unless you’re in a certain someone’s corner who always starts these fights.
That, and didn't you get the memo to stay on topic?


If setup correctly music will have more body, more weight to it. Bass will be extended and tight, music should present as more open and spacious.
Yes to all that and more.


I'm more and more getting the feeling that there is more than a little quid pro quo happening on this website, name brand advertising for benefits.
That, and some major rotator cuff strain from all the patting oneself on the back.