Where to use Isolation devices

The purchase and support of products that Claim to isolate should be a buyer beware alert. Isolation only exists in the absence of matter. Products that claim to isolate are a failure from the start based on such a premise that cannot deliver. At best these products merely re-tune your system to the flavor of the day. Mixing several of these non -isolation products together is the audible equivalent of trying to eat a soup sandwich. Resonant energy is still trapped and slow to leave it really needs to be provided a grounding pathway. Tom

John

You now need to ground/terminate the 30 lb. slab it has an even greater reserve to fill of unwanted resonance. It can sound even better yet. The whole process should be to direct the energy to ground/the mass of your floor. These pathways to ground should be reactive in material and geometry. Vibration can be given direction. What turntable are you using? Tom

John

I use the resonance grounding method. You could describe it as a grounding rod or lightening rod. Vibration itself can be given direction with the use of similar hard materials all reactive by nature. These reactive materials also need proper geometry to help in the collection and re focusing of this collected energy. As in a relay race the pass of the baton is the the critical factor in maintaining the timing and the speed. All has to be similar and coherent, the less touches there are by different materials the better and more real is the result. Your thirty pound butcher block base is large in capacity and is similar to a tub or a sink with much water or energy quickly filling it from the top but it's drain is restricted on the bottom from the use of very slow materials, its nearly clogged in effect. I would use cones made of brass, materials of music they are. Even if you had 10 different brass cones from 5 different vendors they would all sound different based on mass and geometry. The cones also need to be terminated in kind and with like materials. These methods when activated throughout your system will make it come alive. All this works for me. Tom