Does anyone use wood for vibration control?

It is possible to do something without knowing why it worked. The problem is when one tries too hard to explain why it works and gets tangled in that. At the same time, good theory is always a good start, but does not guarantee real-life outcome.

There is nothing wrong with theoretical discussion, it is amusing indeed, and there is nothing wrong with having practical experience and not being able to pinpoint the explanation.

Not every good car mechanic can explain details about physics that goes into car functioning on molecular level . Does anyone think less of them because of that? It is fun understanding how it all works, though.

there is a place for science and there is a place for trial and error and curiously both paths collide in this hobby.

I'll not argue there is substantial science in the designs and builds of electronic equipment, though the 'exact' process by which it's associated parts are amassed into a highly resolving soul satisfying audio system has yet to be published which attends to every concievable modification, choice, or incongruity.

how many filaments did Edison go thru before he found one that would last for more than scant seconds? then minutes? then hours and days?

Edison even tried horsehair!

ever wonder exactly where horse hair was on that list?

as for reputed 'colorations' attributed to wood types, sometimes the audio needs coloration. or better said, 'colorization', or merely some added color.

everytime Edison tried a new filament material that did not work he came one step closer to the one which would.

often in the course of science remarkable solutions or results occur which took place entirely from happenstance or mistakes and they were as such not a part of the original method being attended to.

Thankfully Edison's ideas on DC current/voltage were short sighted enough he lost out to Tesla and Westinghouse' approach for using AC energy.

Tesla too had to swap horses in mid stream and he had the genius to build an induction motor with alternating coils and forego his plans on transmitting electricity thru the air .

when in completely uncharted waters, how does one choose a particular direction, or know that direction is the best one with which to begin? even scientists have to guess now and then.

indeed we all guess, speculate, and theorize, with everything we do. when we buy an amp for our speakers. cables for our amps. tubes for our tube gear.

despite the inherent science in this or that's build or application, its all trial and error. guess work.

although asembling an audio system then updating and or upgrading it to elevate its total performance is or can be quite involved and often tedious, sonic quality is a much easier and far simpler proposition. here the quality is a purely subjective accounting of the presentation by the one who pays the bills, and at times possibly the input from their better half.

as for wood footers, their influence on the sound seems to be about density and the length of their fibers which make up the various kinds of trees being utilized.

IMHO, Ebnony and Mahogany are my favs. however it do depend on the application, rack, device, etc..

RWV

According to stories, Tesla considered Edison inefficient as Edison was doing trial-and-error often while Tesla thought that you had to figure it out in your head first and then do experiment just to prove you were correct.

I was not there so I cannot guarantee, but that is what I was told.

Marconi developed long range wireless communications over the course of many years, building larger and larger towers and more powerful transmit stations until they finally collapsed by their own weight. He had miscalculated that radio transmissions had to be long wave high power. At the time it was not known what an electromagnetic wave even was. No one knew. Marconi did not believe radio waves traveled in straight lines. He thought they followed the curvature of the Earth. As it turned out in the end the waves are very short and require only very low power. By contrast ELF (long wave) communications at wavelength of 75 Hz requires one million watts of transmit power. This is what happens sometimes, when people assume something and take it to the extreme. Sound familiar?