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How an audio rack can enhance your amp/pre
The source of all vibration started with the Big Bang and are still in motion. Lets hope they don't stop moving for awhile.Tom 
How an audio rack can enhance your amp/pre
ToptenMaybe you were referring to these 99 balloons.Nena - 99 Luftballons - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CnDvtwYn6IBut you still have the issue of self generated noise that would need to be directed to ground and then there is always the fear ... 
How an audio rack can enhance your amp/pre
You can make an active stand out of passive materials. Tom 
High Fidelity Cables -- A revelatory experience
The magnets used hold a permanent charge unless you heat them up past 170F so I have read in other published sources.. I once tried to demagnetize some neo magnets for a special purpose and cooked at 500F for 30 minutes and they still seemed to ho... 
How an audio rack can enhance your amp/pre
Bdp24The concepts you mentioned are easy if there is an understanding that isolation is not achievable unto itself. If it were, then electron motion would cease and that means there would be no physical matter present.Even in a stasis mode there i... 
How an audio rack can enhance your amp/pre
Geoff, Your ideas and insightful experiences always make me stop and think not just about the content of your post but the how and why.Trying to figure out some of that leads me to some other interesting things. Thanks for doing that.Tom 
How an audio rack can enhance your amp/pre
Geoff,I see your concept as reasonable except upon landing at which time it will yaw and recoil,and have different settling times. Of course you could damp the one material that is faster then again that makes for additional timing errors. The ide... 
How an audio rack can enhance your amp/pre
Bdp24,I agree 100% that the Sorbothane is non linear. Wouldn't it be great if you could dial in the Q of all these materials and shapes. Bearings have good vertical coupling when loaded but have less lateral rigidity than a threaded secured cone a... 
How an audio rack can enhance your amp/pre
No sense for mechanical grounding of hard materials or impedance matching of materials? No progression in 65 years? Just a closed book? Tom 
How an audio rack can enhance your amp/pre
Norm I am describing how I use 4 shelf points under my transport and 4 shelf points under my preamp all having the tip facing up at the bottom of the chassis. A user could place many more under a component if there was a benefit heard or the space... 
How an audio rack can enhance your amp/pre
Norm,I use 2 Back Stage Platforms in my personal system and do so successfully with 4 Audio Points and discs on each, under my main source and my preamp. Both these platforms are direct coupled to the floor that's underneath the berber carpet and ... 
How an audio rack can enhance your amp/pre
The questions should be. How many mechanical improvements can be made to a 65 year old Scully lathe? Tom 
How an audio rack can enhance your amp/pre
Wonder how the tone of a string instrument would be affected if a small section of sorbothane was placed on the soundboard and the strings were plucked? Tom 
How an audio rack can enhance your amp/pre
Easy to A/B platforms ...suggested many times over many years to many reviewers. Tom 
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Pass had this patent since expired and copied and changed by others..only 25 years have pass-ed.Active low frequency acoustic resonance suppressor. www.google.com/patents/US4899387 Filed 1988 granted 1990Also change the 90 degree angles all around...