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
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doesn't "active" require a pump? which makes noise? So it changes the signal/noise ration for sound that reaches  your ears?  so the pump needs to be in another room? 
    Mike Levine has an awesome listening room.  My apartment doesn't lend itself to having a custom designed listening room in a separate building, with an isolated pump.  (Same for the a/c system which bring noise through the vents.  Same for isolation transformers, which hum.)  Sure, active is the only way to go, but I can only admire it.