Stillpoints and reference-level speakers

Ok after 4 days these Star Sound Apprentice stands have fully bloomed! Natural tone, luscious bass, engaging mids......all served up with all the dynamic energy you hear in live music. These are really a wonderful investment and marvelous. I want to repeat they do settle in over 72 hours and become more full bodied and natural sounding.

Well,
We can all agree that the Apprentice is a terrific product.I look forward to Agear's inevitable purchase of the Backstage platforms and how they improve upon the Apprentice's high standards that we've established here. Agear don't keep us waiting too long.
Charles,

Agear,
Your SOTA mechanically grounded listening room demands that the Backstage find a permanent home there.

I am so happy to see other members discovering and enjoying these Apprentice platforms. It is really a great day in this hobby when you can not only afford to buy an accessory, but it makes an important contribution to your enjoyment of reproduced music. I imagine that some of you, like myself just want to shout out to other members with systems great or small "Get these!"
I can't imagine a system that they would not improve.

While picking and choosing and auditioning new materials for the latest platforms this session appeared.

There was a variation.. of many tried that was less than 1/2 of 1 percent difference in gross material content. The presentation of this single platform was like having an animated 3D surreal Dali oil painting on the wall in front of me bending and blending itself onto the ceiling. It was if I were in a fish bowl looking around with double vision. While this vision within a vision was totally engaging it was also totally wrong. Strange how a little thing like chemistry can make for such a big change in sound. Speed propagation thru the material was the culprit. Tom. Star Sound Technologies.