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AA PRIMA tweaks ......

I have the latest Sony mechanism AA Prima cd player and have added the following:

1)3 Adona brass cones and feet under the player(very inexpensive).Two in front and one at the back.Walker Audio tuning puck ontop of the player.ERS absorbing material(two sheets) over the tube area of the player.
2)Signal Cable Magic Power Digital Reference powercord(4 feet)
3)PS Audio UPC 200 power conditioner.

Try these,or similar, tweaks and you will be amazed with the results.I certainly am ....
bluebull
bluebull OP
269 posts
 
Yes,I use the feet.

If you go for the Walker's ,get the Supertuning kit and use the Walker discs under the cones.
aball
2,016 posts
 
Edcook - I use rubber washers from Lowe's between my cones and Prima. Solved the problem for me, all at a cost of $1.20.

Hard contact between cones and player is questionable anyway. Rubber is a necessary ingredient for proper damping IMO. Arthur
bluebull OP
269 posts
 
Aball,if the rack is solid enough/damped(I have a custom rack made from metal tubing/sandfilled glass shelves but weights on the glass to dampen vibration...)then the idea is to get rid of the vibration from the component to the "surroundings".Therefore,the contact needs to be as solid as possible.This at least makes sense to me on a cd player.Perhaps on an amp the "floating" isosation on rubber etc mak4es sense since you protect it from vibration from the "surroundings"
This at least my thinking on the matter .....
aball
2,016 posts
 
I see the "surroundings" as the rubber washer, in addition to the rack.
bluebull OP
269 posts
 
Arthur,rubber will not really lead to the disposal of any vibrations from the cd player to the rack,but may of course lead to dampening/absorbsion of any vibration from the cd player.The rubber,will protect from vibration from the rack reaching the component.I guess this also depends on how hard the compound of the rubber is.I used squash balls cut in half under the feet of an hybrid amp ,at one stage.It did make a difference.

Funny,a while ago ,I thought this whole "vibration" control issues were nonsense, until I tried it myself ...
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