Walker Valid Points or Mapleshade Footers for preamp?


Hello,
I am looking for place some brass cones under a tube preamp. Is one product better then another for this purposes or does this matter more equipment with more moving parts?
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Guys, which MSF brass footer exactly are you talking about? There are several different versions.
Glory

2 questions:
1) Where do you find this HRS M3? Is there a website for it?
2) Are you using the HRS on the Solidtech?

I just brought back the MS Heavyfeet v3 and the low Heavyfeet and put them under my phono and the Audio Magic Eclipse PLC. The feet sit directly on a wood floor. The sound is breathtaking - similar effect to the Walker VP. My WVP are under the ModWright preamp directly on 1" MDF. I tried the pucks, but it distracted from the immediacy I got when it was directly on the MDF. Have not A-B them yet.
Thanks for the link Hotbird. Nice to see you here. ;)

Glory
I would suggest that you try to listen to the MSF and WVP on a solid wood support(they were designed this way) - preferably as heavy as you can find. The effect is very different if you hear it on the Solidtech stuff.

FYI, I had 2 sets of Feet of Silence, but got rid of them after trying the Nordost Ti Pulsar points, and later WVP/MSF. The later are clearly superior to the Solidtech stuff especially if your system has deep bass.
Over the weekend, a friend also tried out the Mapleshade brass footers under his equipment, and his comment was "Good thing is brass gives dynamism but seems to have no ringing and high frequency issues."

He was using ceramic footers on a composite material which I passed to him. The ceramic/composite mix "seems more [to give] more stark imaging."

He felt both produced life-like sound.

If given such a senario, which would you go for? Better dynamics or imaging?