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Isolation Devices: Any Good Ones?

I'm considering some Isolation devices to place under my Esoteric X-05 CD player. I have actualy tried Stillpoins Ultra SS ($675 for 3) and they did make a difference. I'm interested to hear from those of you who have tried others like Wave Kinetics ($700 for 4), KWO Super Heated Metal Foam Pedestals ($415 for 3), Nordost Sort Kones ($260 for 4) or any others that markedly helped vibration control. Thanks!
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goldenear1948
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I drank the liquid mercury and now my listening room is an acoustically perfect box six feet underground
sabai
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This thread reminds me of many others where people were falling all over themselves LOL-ing in public about Synergistic Research products and Bybee products and some other unusual products they had never tried. Jack Bybee made a controversial comment about some of these folks -- and I could not agree more. In the end, Jack Bybee and Ted Denney and a few other makers definitely had the last laugh.
sabai
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Davidpritchard,
Thanks for your impressions. I have been looking at them but have not heard from anyone who has actually used them -- before your comments.
theaudiotweak
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The laugh is the playing with materials that only lead to a dead end. Nothing reactive or geometrically conductive in a bag of sand or a box of lead. These materials have a high saturation point but also have a very slow time release of that same energy. They cause much coloration to the device to which they are applied . Nothing musically pleasing about these materials. Tom
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geoffkait
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Tom, you are correct, sir. And they seem like SUCH a good idea.
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