Expensive ? Heck Ya. Pull their weight ? More than.
I bought three sets of the pro's to put under my scd-1 and heavy eidolon speakers. I was floored at the improvement. It seemed to just put the whole room at ease. Finally the bass was not coming from the floor so much as the soundstage. The improvement is very similar to spiking a speaker just greatly magnified. An outright bargain. I have a feeling they are most effective with heavy bass speakers.
After this improvement, I decided to go hog wild and bought Aurios 1.0's for the preamp, phono, and amp & my recording computer. Now my turntable is the only thing not floating. The 1.0's are quite a bit more work to set up than the pro's. You must make sure the surface underneath is level, after which you need to determine (roughly) the balance points of the system. I recommend them more for 'set and forget' components such as a phonostage or amplifier. After adding the four aurios sets, I noticed an increased quietness still, though not on the level of the speakers and digital sections with the pro's.
The aurios under the speakers was far and away the biggest improvement. This just causes much less vibration to enter the room itself. Accordingly, whenever I turn my subwoofer on now I hear lot's of congestion and smearing enter the picture. A much bigger difference than than pre-aurios.
Has anyone tried putting aurios under a turntable ? I am concerned with cartridge damage in case I bump it and cause the table to shimmy sideways then stop. I also wonder if it would disturb the interaction between the arm and the rotating platter.
I bought three sets of the pro's to put under my scd-1 and heavy eidolon speakers. I was floored at the improvement. It seemed to just put the whole room at ease. Finally the bass was not coming from the floor so much as the soundstage. The improvement is very similar to spiking a speaker just greatly magnified. An outright bargain. I have a feeling they are most effective with heavy bass speakers.
After this improvement, I decided to go hog wild and bought Aurios 1.0's for the preamp, phono, and amp & my recording computer. Now my turntable is the only thing not floating. The 1.0's are quite a bit more work to set up than the pro's. You must make sure the surface underneath is level, after which you need to determine (roughly) the balance points of the system. I recommend them more for 'set and forget' components such as a phonostage or amplifier. After adding the four aurios sets, I noticed an increased quietness still, though not on the level of the speakers and digital sections with the pro's.
The aurios under the speakers was far and away the biggest improvement. This just causes much less vibration to enter the room itself. Accordingly, whenever I turn my subwoofer on now I hear lot's of congestion and smearing enter the picture. A much bigger difference than than pre-aurios.
Has anyone tried putting aurios under a turntable ? I am concerned with cartridge damage in case I bump it and cause the table to shimmy sideways then stop. I also wonder if it would disturb the interaction between the arm and the rotating platter.