In home audio you are beset with so many vibration issues created by playing music it's really best not to listen to anything. It's simply not worth the risk.
Vibration Control
Why do solid state audio electronics with no moving parts need or benefit from vibration control?
It makes perfect sense that turntables, CD transports, R2R tape decks, loudspeakers & tubed electronics (w/ potentially micro phonic tubes) might all benefit from various methods of vibration control or mitigation but I don’t see why anything else would. Any thoughts??
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@nonoise Consider powered speakers with DACs, amps, crossovers, network circuits inside the speakers. Powered speakers are the norm in recording studios all over the world if vibration is so clearly detrimental in sound how can recording studio monitors be internally powered. |
@donavabdear I remember when touch controls first came out on washing machines and dryers and the failure rate of the controls was high due to the shaking, spinning and vibrations that ensued. They had to go back and better isolate the controls as well as build them to higher specs to withstand the NVH. As for powered speakers, there are many designers who frown upon DACs and amps in speakers due to the vibrations from the speaker cones and some, for the longest time, have constructed their crossovers to reside outside of the speakers for the very same reasons, long before they started jamming other junk inside. All the best, |
@nonoise Pick up a Mix magazine and look up the monitors used in professional recording studios you'll find nearly all the monitors are powered internally. This means that if what you say is true, that vibration affects sound, there would be a limit of what the mix engineers would hear to make recordings and mixes because of vibration internally in the speaker. I use powered speakers professionally now because only a few years ago the technology to allow very precise monitoring didn't exist. The argument that vibration affects solid state sound is simply false, understanding that vibration affects mechanical equipment is true. |
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