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Does anyone use wood for vibration control?
michaelgreen,I found that piece about harvesting wood..."The SS-AR2’s baffle board is made from laminated instrument grade maple, harvested on Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido in November, when the grain is tightest."http://www.sonypremiumhome.... 
Does anyone use wood for vibration control?
Breaking gnus!It is not that nice of a day outside. You did not get even that one right.I am sorry geoffkait, you really do not get it. Wrong direction. Toot-toot. 
Doing the Power Cord Thing
Making your own cable, power or whatever, for $100 is one of the cheaper funs you can have. It does not really matter if mids are more organic and blacks are blacker. You can always convince yourself they are, but actually constructing something i... 
Does anyone use wood for vibration control?
michaelgreen,Speaking of wood, let's say walnut as above, do you take into consideration the time/season it was harvested?Once upon a time, it was emphasized in some of the products. I am not sure if it was more for marketing purposes or it really... 
Does anyone use wood for vibration control?
geoffkait,File my posts under "Wow, this guy is so good, I just cannot keep up. Wikipedia betrayed me." 
Does anyone use wood for vibration control?
geoffkait,I get it. You simply do not get it. Your comparison of whatever with car shock absorbers was unfortunate choice as car shock absorbers have changed/developed since 1965. Proof by inspection. Much more goes into them than a semantic game ... 
Does anyone use wood for vibration control?
"consider the case of a car going down the highway with two (2) sets of shock absorbers for each wheel, one on top of the other."Not the best comparison, although understandable one. Shock absorbers are not exactly springs anymore and much more ph... 
Does anyone use wood for vibration control?
I, actually, did not think much about electrical signal but focused on sound as movement of air or some other medium. Something that eventually interacts with one’s ears (just before it gets translated into electrical signal). That is easily the m... 
Does anyone use wood for vibration control?
When it comes to vibrations and topics touched here, one more time. Audio/sound is vibration. No vibration=no sound. Is anyone really disagreeing with that?The issue that geoffkait, and maybe someone else, is clumsily bringing up is influence of s... 
Does anyone use wood for vibration control?
geoffkait said:>>I haven’t misused a word since 1975.Someone must have hacked into his account. No other explanation for this.Hacking Audiogon accounts? What is next? Hacking daycare Wi-Fi? 
Manufacturers pushing their products and agenda in the forums.
So secret and clandestine are same half of the time, but do not have to be all the time. Unless the sense of being illicit is deceiving at times when they are the same again, if secret is not illicit at that moment. Huh, cable threads are simpler. 
Manufacturers pushing their products and agenda in the forums.
clearthink,(to cleeds)"...do you prefer that I reveal to the world what it is I know about you?!?"Please do. If you continue to insult her/him for a reason the rest of us cannot figure out, insult him like a man. Tell us all the hidden and clandes... 
Manufacturers pushing their products and agenda in the forums.
Isn't "clandestine" and "secret" same thing? 
Does anyone use wood for vibration control?
"...why come to the table if you’re not prepared to dine."To see what is for dinner and if one may like it at some point. 
Disco...yep, I'm going there
40+ years later and people are still passionate about Disco.That is some testament to Disco power and impact, regardless of what side of the Disco fence you are on.Just look at this thread.