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| Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics? agear OPGeoffkait:Huh? As Townshend points out on his web site, and as I’ve pointed out as well, isolating the speakers has two advantages:(1) it prevents low frequency vibration from getting up into the speakers and affecting wiring and electroni... | |
| Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics? agear OP: "decouple the speakers from the room which I guess can be an advantage depending on room nodes, etc"Geoffkait:Depending on room nodes? Huh? What on Earth are you referring to?to which Agear replied,"Not anything to worry about with your ... | |
| New Mag-Lev Turntable "You know, what doesn’t make a lot of sense to me at all with Audiophilia, is that we have some "well heeled" Audiophiles searching for that sound; spending thousands on gear. And as we are in the analog forum here, this means - multiple turntable... | |
| Why pay so much for super high end? The placebo effect is real but can be eliminated by careful listening tests. Just like any other psychological bugaboo that skeptics might want to put forth. | |
| Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics? Agear wrote,"It is interesting that the Townsend stands seem to decouple the speakers from the room which I guess can be an advantage depending on room nodes, etc"Depending on room nodes? Huh? What on Earth are you referring to? | |
| Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics? Agear wrote,"You are in for a surprise given all the aspersion cast upon their humble "cone" based technology."I'm pretty sure no one has cast asperions on their technology or even suggested it wouldn't work. But to suggest that their technology i... | |
| Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics? Agear wrote,"It is interesting that the Townsend stands seem to decouple the speakers from the room which I guess can be an advantage depending on room nodes, etc."Huh? As Townshend points out on his web site, and as I’ve pointed out as well, isol... | |
| New Mag-Lev Turntable One can’t help wondering why the inventors of the mag lev turntable didn’t also employ mag lev for the tonearm, which appears to be an easier task than mag leving the platter. Then the new mag lev turntable would be analogous to the air bearing ev... | |
| New Mag-Lev Turntable Ct0517 wrote,@Atmasphere and Geoffkait - I find your use of the word Rigid misleading. Why don’t you use "Mechanically Connected" or something like that instead. Rigid - unable to bend or be forced out of shape; not flexible.- not able to be chang... | |
| Listen...chair Poang! That's the one! I'm not hot dogging you, I could still heard it degrade the sound when I put it in the next room as it was intolerable in the listening room.cheers | |
| New Mag-Lev Turntable Atmasphere wrote,"When the base of the arm and the surface of the platter are not rigidly coupled, the result is that any motion in which both are not a party will be interpreted by the pickup as a coloration. One example could be a loss of bass. ... | |
| Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics? mapman13,986 posts11-21-2016 10:35amThe king of trolls speaks.Next up, the king of the know nothings steps up to the plate and takes a mighty swing. Ah, the breeze feels good. There is no joy in Palookaville today. The mighty Moopman has struck out. | |
| Listen...chair If it's got foam cushions in it like the IKEA chair I'm out. | |
| Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics? agear OP1,238 posts11-21-2016 9:48amrandy-11223 posts11-18-2016 4:47pmI agree that the mods should close this thread and get rid of the trollIf we got rid of all the trolls on this thread there wouldn’t be anyone left to post. 😥That would be troll... | |
| Hi-Fi Tunig Fuses & Parasound A21 Wolf man wrote,"Note geoffkait is an athletic supporter of SR stuff, claims to not actually USE fuses in his gear, and has marketed utterly laughable and useless tweaks (he literally sold a bag of "special" rocks to place near the wires…or somepla... |