Vibration - What are the Main Sources?

@pauly - speakers generate internal vibrations from their drivers moving and push vibrations to the floor vibrating everything. That is why you want to isolate them and take the vibrations out of the cabinets. Most good speakers either come with spikes or platforms or something to decouple them from the floor. Same is true for amps, phono stages, CD players, DACs, you name it.

When I put my speakers on multilayer platforms, the sound was clearer and cleaner. I could put the layer on top or isolation pods or blocks or something, but I just don't want that floating effect because the speakers are tall and thin. Everything else floats.

IMHO the turntable is the place where the most improvement can come the easiest. A pod/block based platform on top of a wall shelf really combats vibration.

@pauly- sorry for the confusion, phono stages and amps have vibrations in capacitors for example, and I meant to say coupling them to the base can transform them out, AND isolating the boxes is beneficial in keeping the external vibrations out, as @georgehoffman60 mentioned above.

I wasn’t convinced of any of this until I heard some very believable testimonials and first tried isolation on my turntable and was absolutely blown away by the improvement. So much so that speakers were next. VERY big improvement. Then the phono stage, then the amp. Not all changes are equal and I suspect results vary based on equipment and environment. Also, the solution for the turntable was different from the speakers and different from the phono stage and amp. Only thing I haven’t treated is my power conditioner  because I wanted one box that doesn’t float so it doesn’t move when I handle records and put them on top of it. I use Herbie’s Tenderfeet under that, which I haven’t heard much of a difference, but that box probably has less room for improvement than the others, but still could benefit from the better treatments. If I didn’t need that “work” area, I would treat that like the boxes. I use roller blocks which transfer vibrations out while isolating the components. They can be combined with multilayer platforms if you want to take it to a next level. Like everything in this hobby, you can always do more, but these gave me great bang for the buck. Much less expensive than upgrading components.
Interestingly enough, according to Peter, the owner of Symposium Acoustics, whose products I use on my speakers and amp and phono stage and has been doing this for 29 years, the biggest sound improvement he has heard is with CD players. I disconnected mine 15 years ago when they started making records in greater numbers and haven’t regretted it for one minute.

@pauley - have you tried any of this? Listening is believing.