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| European Vibraplane? The Vibraplane was a Newport Corp. microscope stand modified to provide lateral isolation in addition to vertical, not sure about the rotational directions, possibly rocking and rolling isolation. Since the Earth Crust motionproduces a lot of ener... | |
| Tricky Room Geometry Question That's quite a predicament, but if I can make a suggestion, try moving the 2.4s closer together than the recommended distance. I suspect you might find 5 feet apart sounds very good, maybe better than the recommended distance, which could be for m... | |
| Isolation Platform from Timber Nation Vibraplane was the first or maybe second audiophile grade isolation device, that was around 15 years ago and prompted the landmark Bad Vibes article in Sterophile by Shannon Dickson. Possibly the Seismic Sink was first. Since then there has been a... | |
| Platform for VPI super scoutmaster High end electron microscope stands aren't as expensive as you would think. For example, two electron microscope stands marketed to the audiophile market, Vibraplane and Minus K, are both around $2.5K. There are, what, about 15 pretty decent audio... | |
| AFFORDABLE HIGH VFM RACKS - Opinions Please... Quadrispire makes their racks out of glass or hardwood. Now, that's a little counterintuitive, you know, what with the ringing thing. | |
| Steadywash Platform Washing Machine vibration All mass on spring systems work more or less the same. Based on expected load, select springs with desired spring rate and number of springs required to achieve target resonant frequency of isolating system. The trick is obtaining resonant frequen... | |
| AFFORDABLE HIGH VFM RACKS - Opinions Please... Some folks say striking maple with a small hammer makes it ring. I say don't strike it with a hammer. | |
| Speaker Placement You can forget about all the theories of toe in, toe out, blah blah blah...get a hold of Track 3 - Out of Phase (speaker set-up) of the XLO Test CD. Track 3 allows you to find the absolute best locations for both speakers. No more guessing by movi... | |
| How did "Oh Mercy" end up sounding so great? Pretty sure tube electronics were involved in the recording process. | |
| Coconut Audio = LOL If he's not he should be. | |
| Coconut Audio = LOL Mapman wrote,"...Geoffkait's "high end" science fiction tweak site?"Uh, Mapman, I'm pretty sure you mean my science friction. | |
| Sealed, Ported, or Passive Radiators? Just curious, have you ever heard of wave cancellation?:-) | |
| Powered Studio Monitors Have you tried Google? | |
| Mapeshade cable lifts or any cable lifts? Ideally, all cables and cords should be suspended from above by fishing line or thread. | |
| What Instrument would you listen to? Percussion instruments. Dynamics, harmonic structure, transient response, decay, the whole nine yards. |