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I'll add another recommendation for Core Audio Design racks.  Extremely well made and effective, well isolated, no need for additional isolation tweaks.

Thanks for the suggestions. I'm at a point that I'm so happy with my system. Although I have priced a couple Quadraspire racks, I'm still not convinced an expense rack is money well spent. 

Every concept for footer or rack mentioned previous other than the post dated 7-21 are anisotropic in design or by nature. Multiple materials and speeds make for multiple refracted pathways. All materials have a resonance memory.. and shape is all part of this memory and its release. Using many materials with various shapes and boundaries predicts a varied attack and decay over a confused time frame.  The fix is in choosing the right  material and it's refracting shape. Talk about first reflection...it all starts with the materials and shapes you have chosen to set your audio components on..all those different wave fronts will create more interfering energy all within the component, your system and your room.  Multiple reflection points can be created before the first acoustic reflection point occurs.. prior to the first acoustic wave launched from your speaker reaches the the nearest room boundary. The fix is in the chosen material and it's refracting shape. The fewer parts the better..less gives you more music.  Remember isolation can only exist in the absence of matter..if you get the drift. Hey Cartman where would we be today without matter?  Tom. working with Star Sound Technologies

theaudiotweak,

In layman's terms, what are you saying? 

Theaudiotweak wrote,

"Remember isolation can only exist in the absence of matter..if you get the drift."

Nobody ever said isolation is or has to be perfect 100% isolation. What we’re talking about is actually rather imperfect isolation, a low passive mechanical filter (for most iso devices) that is inefficient for very low frequencies but increasing effective as one goes up in frequency. You know, depending on where the resonant frequency point happens to be. Thus by the point you get up to say 20 Hz the isolation is very close to 100%. And for frequencies that really count, e.g., the resonant frequencies of tonearms, cartridges, laser assemblies, etc. Circa 10-12 Hz the effectiveness of a competent iso device is actually quite good.