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Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics?

Mechanical grounding or isolation from vibration has been a hot topic as of late.  Many know from experience that footers, stands and other vibration technologies impact things that vibrate a lot like speakers, subs or even listening rooms (my recent experience with an "Energy room").  The question is does it have merit when it comes to electronics and if so why?  Are there plausible explanations for their effect on electronics or suggested measurement paradigms to document such an effect?
agear
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geoffkait
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For starters mag lev for audio, even audio turntables, has been around like forever. Hiw long has the Mag Lev Verdier turntable been around? Gotta be twenty years. And the Verdier has a really heavy platter to boot. Ditto the Relaxa Mag Lev iso stand. Noto Bene: Mag lev is great for trains, for audio not so terrific, at least it's easy to implement. It has issues. If Mag Lev was so great don’t you think LIGO the program for detecting gravity waves would have incorporated it somewhere in their iso system? Hel-looo!

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It was tongue in cheek Geoff....
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Good one. Duh! That's almost as good as the CD rewinder.
theaudiotweak
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Unless the device is properly grounded it will suffer from shear wave interference and the resulting inefficiencies..even if it floats in air. Tom
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theaudiotweak
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Unless the device is properly grounded it will suffer from shear wave interference and the resulting inefficiencies..even if it floats in air.

No it won't. That's what damping is for. By inspection the frequencies of acoustic waves are well above seismic frequencies, which are not amenable to damping. Case solved.

Shear wave interference. Wow! Did you think that up all by yourself? The resulting inefficiencies? Groan.....

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