Vibration Isolators

Warrenh, When the system is not playing I find that I don't need any of these whatevers you describe. Yes, I do think that primarily bass energy from speakers/subs can cause trouble with electronics( I could be wrong?), especially tube electronics, Cd players, and turntables.If ya got no real bass then it likely won't be as significant. I do know that when I decoupled my sub from the floor by taking the standard spike feet off it and puting it on the pods the sound became much more realistic and focused. I am not atributing this entirley to lessening vibration getting to my components, more it took some of my room acoustics out of the equation. This is what I believe to have happened in my room/system/opinion. Set up is an art form. Do what works for you. I am with Swklein, let someone else expalin it, as long as it works for me, or whatever you use works for you. I have heard some very costly systems in homes of audiophiles that I would not want to live with. They must like them.

When all your electronics,speakers, even cables, vibrate from the sonic energy of the music in your listening room: where do those vibrations go now that you have them so beautifully isolated from the floor? No place to go. It's when you give them somewhere to go, your music will really open up. My subwoofer came more,alive, focused, tighter, and extended when I placed them on a Sistrum Speaker (Star Sound Technologies) platform. This is a beautiful platform consisting of three audiopoints (1 1/2") facing point up, and three matching audiopoints facing downward going to the floor, held together by a lovely metal plate, with a musical note in the center. The three pairs of points are couple together through internal threads. The metalurgy of these audiopoints is their, soon to be, patented recipe. I became a true believer in resonance transference. I have since, coupled all my electronics with audiopoints, including the wood stand everthing sits on. Four points with threads are screwed into the bottom of the woood stand. Nothing is on the stand that will absorb resonances. I don't even leave a cd jacket there when listening. I plan on buying their Sistrum Rack System eventually which does what I'm doing, in a killer, scientific/physical and aesthetically pleasing way. Robert over at Audiopoints.com is the man when it comes to resonance transference, or at least, explaining it very clearly. I'm going to talk more about the speaker support system I'm using soon. It's drop dead amazing.

Vibrations are self perpetuated within the playback instruments that we choose to reproduce-- the natural resonance of the music we enjoy. If we were to try to dampen or leaden the sound of musical instruments then it would not be considered natural. If we allow electro-mechanical as well as airborne vibration to be stored or dampened they will only again be remodulated by their own device and environment. Resonance transfer science introduces a high speed conductive path so as to naturally drain away these electro-mechanical and airborne vibrations. Without this interference you are finally able to hear all the natural spatial cues within what is dynamically coherent. I personally use this science and these devices exclusively, thru-out my entire playback system. Tom