Isoacoustics Orea vs Townshend Seismic Pod on Components

What's your reference of a spike and did you need to take out a loan to pay for said spike?  Tom

astolfor- It is interesting your measurements show Iso Acoustics don’t even measure as well as Nobsound, as your results there mirror what people actually hear. Rapid decay is mainly what these things are all about, and so it is odd to see the older Credo design measure better, even if only slightly, than the newer Townshend.

Townshend has been making the Podium quite a long time, with the current version having come quite a ways since early days. The only Credo version I know was copied from one of those older/earlier Podiums. There’s a Credo video that pretends to show results similar to yours, and it is a quite good video, you have to watch real close to see how they deceptively manipulated to make it look that way.

All of which makes me wonder, exactly what Credo and Podium were compared? What was the speaker, how much did it weigh, and what pods were in the Podiums?

I used Tannoy Kensington for speakers, I bought the podium you recommended. I told John David Hannant what speakers I had and I bought what he recommended. 

The Credo, I bought with the EV Reference One a while ago, and I got the bases  shipped to the USA while I was waiting for my new turntable and Pathos I was supposed to get a month ago. 

I gave up waiting last Saturday and came home to spend Christmas and New Years with my friends and family.

I would not draw too much of a conclusion between the  Credo and Podiums, for the numbers to be mathematically  relevant to a 1/100th I would need another 500 or so measurements. 

As far as it goes, the Podiums do an incredible job in improving decay, overall distortion, timing and group decay. 

So kinda what I thought, within margin of error, so to speak. Yeah they are pretty remarkable. Once you get used to hearing speakers on them it is kinda hard for anything not on Podiums to compare.

When I installed Townshend Seismic Podiums on my speakers the improvement in SQ was as much or more than any component. Transformative!