Vibration Isolators

You cannot isolate vibration. It's everywhere. The music, itself; vibrations in the air. Sound is vibration. It's ok. Let it vibrate and send the resonances to the floor. I do not understand the hoopla with these vibropads. Man, I hate to leave.. I'll be back for more, but I'm on a prep, and my students call.

I also am using the Aurios 1.2 with bearing currently under CDP, it took me a while to effectively nuetralize my VD Nite AC cord's effect so they work properly. Agree with others that you must try many things they all sound different and I still own several other footer systems, and shelves.

The Daruma II bearings will give you a "taste" of the Aurios 1.2 for under $100 a set of three. If you keep looking you can get a used set of Aurios 1.2 for @$200 here.

BTW I find the Aurios 1.2 with bearing a noticeable improvement vs original Aurios MIB both in sound and easier set-up.

If you don't want to fool with hassle/cost of bearings the huge Mapleshade Heavy Foot brass cones work very good for $60 a set of three.

Another strong vote for the Aurios Pros, and don't agree for a second that they contribute any bass-heaviness if used properly. All Aurios work best supporting something with spikes. A combination, for example, of a Signal Guard II isolation platform with spiked feet resting in four Aurios Pros is a great upgrade--not cheap, but this isn't a cheap hobby.

Somebody explain this to me. You have your speakers, amps, everything on these bearings, vibropods, sandbags,concrete, and other esoteric whatevers. Now where is the isolation? Are the resonances from the sounds put out by your speakers airborne? How do you keep that from your components? You can't. Better to couple everything. Send all those resonances to the floor. Vibration can't be stopped. There are many good vibrations. Why would you want to absorb them? Sand, lead, the like, don't differentiate between the two. This new speaker support system I just purchased from Star Sound Technologies is based on this principle of resonance transference. I am still in awe of what I hear from my speakers. I am a tough sell, with these golden ears of mine. Can you relate? More about these stands in a bit. Back to you with more.. Got's to go and run. Be gentle with me.

No quarrel with anything that works, Warrenh. I don't understand the physics behind vibration isolation or tranfer (lowly English prof that I am), but I know what works. And just as I don't for the life of me understand why different power cords affect the sound radically, so I don't understand what makes the Aurios so effective (or, for that matter, why they have different sounds from one another). This is an inductive business, and we'll let the scientists figure it out in the future. If it's good enough for medicine (see under aspirin, for instance) why not audio?