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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?
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Geoff

Send me 2 of your platforms for evaluation. I will remove the glass beads of 1 or you could send one empty and refill with our Micro Bearing steel and then direct couple the base with Audiopoints. Then we can do a direct ab comparison using the same cd player. We could just move the player from one base to the other. Same cd same volume level set on the preamp. We could make a skirt to hide the bottom of both platforms so the audience couldnt see the difference. Use our ears and a calibrated mic and spectrum software to validate the process. Sould be very informative. Tom
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theaudiotweak
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10-20-2016 11:19am
Geoff

Send me 2 of your platforms for evaluation. I will remove the glass beads of 1 or you could send one empty and refill with our Micro Bearing steel and then direct couple the base with Audiopoints. Then we can do a direct ab comparison using the same cd player. We could just move the player from one base to the other. Same cd same volume level set on the preamp. We could make a skirt to hide the bottom of both platforms so the audience couldnt see the difference. Use our ears and a calibrated mic and spectrum software to validate the process. Sould be very informative. Tom

Hey, that sounds real interesting. Thanks but no thanks. Besides, I have previously stated I do not sell or send for evaluation any of my products to anyone on these threads. 

have a nice day

geoff at Machina Dynamica

agear OP
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That's an odd posture.  What is your MO then?  Are you just bored?

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agear OP
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10-20-2016 10:50am
I prefer to keep you in suspense. I prefer not to walk you through the development process at this time. I plan on developing a page on my web site for the Bio Mikro g iso stand some time in the future.

Geoff Kait
machina dynamica
advanced audio concepts

I expected that answer. No suspense.

It's always the same with you guys. "What about this. What about that?"

;-)

cheers
theaudiotweak
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An even greater enhancement would be the addition of our brass coupling discs under the Audiopoints. The fact that both the point and the disc are of the same material means they both have the same shear velocity and that the disc effectively makes for a much more efficient impedance match of materials. Hope this description helps. Tom
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