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| WHAT HAS WORKED FOR YOU? ISOLATION PLATFORMS, FOOTERS, ETC. for a DAC? david_ten OP352 posts07-29-2017 9:28am@geoffkait and others, Is there a simple or somewhat simple way to figure out mass distribution of a component, other than eyeballing transformer postion(s) and weightier sections and going by felt weight?S... | |
| WHAT HAS WORKED FOR YOU? ISOLATION PLATFORMS, FOOTERS, ETC. for a DAC? That would be true if the mass distribution of the component is uniform. But since mass is often not uniform - such as when a large transformer is located on one side of an amplifier or a motor is located on the side of a turntable - the mass shou... | |
| Looking for cartridge recommendations (after a 20 year hiatus) Dingos ate your baby! | |
| Would "Sgt. Pepper's" be a better album if..... Within You and Without You of course was a George Harrison song, George was learning sitar from Rabi Shankar at the time. The sitar also popped up on Paint it Black (the sitar was played by Brian Jones (who one assumes was not adverse to ingesting... | |
| WHAT HAS WORKED FOR YOU? ISOLATION PLATFORMS, FOOTERS, ETC. for a DAC? Actually the 6 degrees of freedom is a misnomer since it’s obvious that for the horizontal plane there are an infinite number of directions, not just the two X and Z directions. Which explains why roller bearings are so effective for the horizonta... | |
| Would "Sgt. Pepper's" be a better album if..... On Dark Side of the Moon the bit with the guy running around a circular track and breathing heavily is pretty cool and has terrific soundstaging. You could just put that on REPEAT. Oh, also the bells and glockenspiel! | |
| WHAT HAS WORKED FOR YOU? ISOLATION PLATFORMS, FOOTERS, ETC. for a DAC? Obviously there are vibrations below the frequency speakers can deliver. Those are the seismic vibrations. Obviously it’s better to isolate the speakers along with everything else, no?"I said this would be fun but I didn't say for who." 😃 | |
| WHAT HAS WORKED FOR YOU? ISOLATION PLATFORMS, FOOTERS, ETC. for a DAC? Tapping noise and 60 Hz noise is not why we employ isolation. Those are examples of higher frequency vibration and induced vibration. One needs to address induced noise, airborne vibration AND low frequency seismic type vibration. Even solid state... | |
| Would "Sgt. Pepper's" be a better album if..... Psychedelic music is somewhat of a misnomer since the music is not necessarily linked to drug use, probably very seldom, or even a drug lifestyle nor would the group or singer had to have taken LSD or any other drug to write or play psychedelic mu... | |
| WHAT HAS WORKED FOR YOU? ISOLATION PLATFORMS, FOOTERS, ETC. for a DAC? Unfortunately it’s not really a question of "microphonic immunity." There is nothing you can do to make a component - any component - immune to low frequency seismic type vibration, I mean other than isolate it from those vibrations using some typ... | |
| WHAT HAS WORKED FOR YOU? ISOLATION PLATFORMS, FOOTERS, ETC. for a DAC? Totally agree with the observation that the location of cones underneath components is a variable. By the same token, cones should always be placed under vibration isolation stands, either in sets of three or four, and those locations affect the s... | |
| Do female audiophiles exist Let's see, there's Enid Lumley, May Belt, Elizabeth and Sue Kraft, the latter two which post mostly over on Audio Asylum on various sundry topics. May used to post most regularly on AA and Stereophile Forum. | |
| Would "Sgt. Pepper's" be a better album if..... The reason SPLHCB is almost always at the top of lists of best albums is because of its originality and great songs and inventiveness for the time and to a large extent it survived very well. It was you could say a benchmark. Actually, now that I ... | |
| Would "Sgt. Pepper's" be a better album if..... Hey, that would be a good title for a song, The Long and Pointless Road. | |
| Fuses fuses fuses If it weren’t for threads like fuse threads neither side would have much to debate. Sometimes it’s good to release all that pent up emotion. 😀 Long live fuse threads and all the other threads that threaten complacent and contended audiophiles. As ... |