Component isolation

Hi all,

This issue of vibration resolution and the science behind it can get overwhelming and out of proportion with the cost of mitigating it in my opinion. I certainly may be naive in this regard but I have used a cork mat on my turntable, the little cork or cork-like inserts in Shunyata steel feet boxes for small devices, and even wine bottle corks that I have cut in half length-wise to use under components. More recently I have also used Vibrapods. At only $24 for a pack of 4 Vibrapods, I think it has hard to go very wrong. At best, I have solved any vibration issues I may have and can perceive. At worst, it’s a good start and not expensive. Leaving to ask what would be the incremental benefit of my expensive vibration resolution solutions. 

**Leaving to ask what would be the incremental benefit of *any* expensive vibration resolution solutions.

Any expansive vibration solution is certainly not worth it,because the money invest would be more useful at any other link of an audio system... I eliminate audible vibration at low cost in my system...


The greatest underestimated problem and more difficult to solve atlow cost is cleaning the electrical line and the audio line system...

I try too play it safe and do everything including speakers, though don"t buy expensive feet etc.On another note the picture of your ? sure is hot!!!

Michael, you say that," ... when you dampen vibrations you’re also dampening part of the audio signal." In my system, parasitic resonances (all resonances are a form of vibration) such as those excited in the tonearm, are not part of the audio signal. So I damp them out. Don't think you can have thought this through.

You also say, "Another tip. Low mass frees the sound high mass squeeze the sound. The more weight and compressed mass your system has the more squeezed the signal will sound. The lighter mass you have, the more open the sound will be." Don't quite know what you are getting at here. Do you really mean that a high mass platter will "squeeze the sound?" If so, what do you mean by 'squeeze'? Is this a frequency effect? And what on earth is a 'compressed mass'?  What is being compressed, and what force is doing the compressing?