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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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millercarbon
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What I don’t quite get is why GK doesn’t just come out and show us all his great ideas. So we can, you know, decide for ourselves. Is he being modest? Or is he hiding something?

Here’s a thought- how about you decide? Here. Take a look. http://www.machinadynamica.com/machina24.htm
Gosh. I can hardly understand why that is "no longer available". What do you think?

That image by the way, according to GK is not his system. There are no images available anywhere on the net of his system. He claims that is a picture of some guy in Sweden. Who supposedly bought this thing then paid for shipping to Sweden. Because that’s where you have to go I guess to find audiophiles dumb enough to have exercise weights and Firestone air springs shipped clear across the Atlantic, Sweden. Right.

But hey, if you don’t like that one he has others. Flying saucers. Morphic Messages. Teleportation Tweaks.

I worry some may think there’s no way, no one could be so kooky, must be making this up just to insult poor GK. Not even.
http://www.machinadynamica.com/

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So now its an offense even to make people aware of your website?
http://www.machinadynamica.com/And the results of your "theories"?
http://www.machinadynamica.com/machina24.htmI would think you would be proud of your work. I mean you do shill it here all the time. But then someone brings it to light, you have it removed. Almost as if you really are ashamed of it. Can’t help noticing you never link to your system. If what you are saying is true then why not show us how you exemplify what you’re always talking about? Why hide it?
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millercarbon
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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.

Which one is this? http://www.machinadynamica.com/machina24.htmArt? Or science? Right? Or wrong? Micro? Or nano?

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millercarbon
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Exactly. What I been sayin'. Vibration inherent in the component. The task is control. Not isolation.
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