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| Stillpoints LP Isolator Record Weight No Quarter is a great great album. Even the CD is unbelievable. | |
| Most suitable and effective isolation platform It's true that a slab of marble or granite will ring when struck with a hammer. The secret is don't strike it with a hammer when the music is playing. | |
| How an audio rack can enhance your amp/pre For the means of isolating components from very low frequencies of vibration, you know, the ones produced by ocean wave action on the shore, Earth crust motion, subways, traffic, wind, those vibrations with frequencies say between 0 Hz and 10 Hz t... | |
| Ground 'box' what's in them? Not to be confused with Mapleshade's Ground Plane copper ribbon tweak.http://shop.mapleshadestore.com/Ground-Plane-Ribbons/products/227/ | |
| Most suitable and effective isolation platform just one word. Bungee cords. | |
| How an audio rack can enhance your amp/pre The mass on spring device is of course a low pass filter that increases effectiveness of isoaltion as frequency of vibration increases. So the idea that turntable vibrations (which are relatively high in frequency) will be transmitted from the top... | |
| How an audio rack can enhance your amp/pre The cool thing about Earth crust motion is that the whole building is moved and flexed. Even the concrete slab. The Earth crust motion is similar to shaking out a carpet, that wave type action. Yeah, Baby! | |
| How an audio rack can enhance your amp/pre Hey, what happened to the vibration coming up from the floor? That's a much bigger problem than anything the component can dish out. And that what the rigid rack amplifies. Hel-looo! | |
| Good sounding Deutsche Grammophon recordings Before they went digital and before they went to transistors. | |
| Maplenoll fans Iink about Bob Dilger Didn't Lloyd Walker Audio buy out Maplenoll? Pretty sure the Walker table is the evolution of the Maplenoll. Walker also being a friend of Pierre. The plot thickens... | |
| Maplenoll fans Iink about Bob Dilger In the late 90s I had the Athena Special Edition with the 50 lb platter, 500 feet of air tubing from the Ir pump to the turntable and two air buffers, the Maplenoll itself was up on a modified version of my Nimbus sub Hertz iso platform with 150 l... | |
| How an audio rack can enhance your amp/pre Passive is the new active? Do tell. | |
| How an audio rack can enhance your amp/pre I prefer sapphire threads or if I'm pinched for money bungee cords. | |
| How an audio rack can enhance your amp/pre Just in case nobody else mentioned it already there is a slight, uh, difficulty with many racks and that is they actually amplify vibrations. It all depends on what the designer had in mind and hiw he was able to execute his design. As I am find o... | |
| Who is your overall favorite guitarist? Really, she killed him twice? |