Actually things are a little slow, I’m just pulling your chain. 🤗 My compliments on your shameless plug!
What's the best isolation system?
Let's hear your ideas on isolation. I'm hoping this will be a survey of systems featuring the different cone products including Mapleshade Triplepoints and heavy hats, Audiopoints various sizes and their footers, Black Diamond, DB Systems etc; through products like Vibrapod and the sorbathane gel feet,include the bearing type products like Aurios, and how you implemeneted or combined systems for the best sound.
If anyone has tried the Van Slyke Engineering Tri Orbs that have been heavily advertised I'd like to know also.
For instance I'm now using a hybrid Vibrapod sandwich which includes a set of Vibrapods (tumed for each component) a quarter inch piece of plate glass, and then Audiopoint or Mapleshade cones (I'm trying to decide between the two.) I have arrived at this combo by a couple of years of listening in a friends and my system by carefully substituting one product at a time.
Hope to hear from you all.
Steve
If anyone has tried the Van Slyke Engineering Tri Orbs that have been heavily advertised I'd like to know also.
For instance I'm now using a hybrid Vibrapod sandwich which includes a set of Vibrapods (tumed for each component) a quarter inch piece of plate glass, and then Audiopoint or Mapleshade cones (I'm trying to decide between the two.) I have arrived at this combo by a couple of years of listening in a friends and my system by carefully substituting one product at a time.
Hope to hear from you all.
Steve
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theaudiotweak2,003 posts04-10-2020 4:09pmhttp://v2.stereotimes.com/post/most-wanted-components-of-the-decade-cables-and-accessories Star Sound Technologies was awarded a product of the decade award. I have been involved since before the end of the 20th century..We are moving forward and ahead with our designs and applications..Made in the North East here in the USA .Other quality brands are also listed. Tom >>>>>Pretty good salesmanship for someone who thinks isolation is impossible. 😬 Since before the end of the 29th century? Oh, please! Give me a break! |
I would judge active devices over-engineered. Passive done right is divine. Less is more sometimes. The real problems with air bladders are (1) they have the wrong geometry, (2) they leak air through the rubber fabric, (3) they have too much internal damping, (4) they generally don’t have low enough resonant frequency Fr and finally (5) they generally don’t isolate in more than one direction. 🔝 |
Most people don’t know isolation is an art as much as a science. There is a wrong way and a right way to implement isolation, even passive isolation. If you could hear what I’ve heard with your ears. 🤗 Look at the sentence I added to my previous post regarding the non- movement of passive iso devices. It’s not as if they - the passive devices - are moving up and down as you intimated. They are also micro nano movements. |
Active might be nice for millionaires and LIGO. Passive is good enough for everyone else. 🤗 By the way, active also floats, settles, overshoots, is corrected, floats, settles, overshoots, etc. Also, if you train a camera on a passive iso device whilst music is playing the camera will not detect any motion. |
Vibration isolation is a two-way street 🔛 That’s why a vibration isolation device can be an upside down pendulum, for example. It’s the combination of the mass AND springs that is the key, not just the springs or the airsprings. For example, an isolation device underneath the speakers does three things: (1) prevents mechanical feedback to the front end electronics via the floor, (2) prevents low frequency seismic type vibration from entering the speakers from the floor AND (3) reduces cabinet resonance. It’s three, three mints in one! As fate would have it vibration isolation DOES reduce self-induced vibration. If there was no such thing as vibration isolation they wouldn’t have been able to reduce the background noise enough to detect gravity waves, the amplitude of which are on the order of the diameter of an atomic nucleus. Hel-loo! |