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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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For anyone interested in the concept of isolation from seismic (or any other) vibrations, there is no need to wait for a seismologist. Simply watch Max Townshend's video on You Tube, and make of it what you will. We don't need no stinkin' seismologist!
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I’m not a seismologist but I was a geology major in college and did study geophysics. We never covered the effects on hifis. Go figure!

But off the cuff if your walls arent rattling I would not worry about it.

I did do a research project in grad school that won an award. It was on effects of earthquakes in the New Madrid Missouri area where the largest earthquakes in US history occurred. Even there I would not worry about it affecting my sound. It’s a silly topic really.

Just my 2 cents. I know gk cares. 😉
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agear wrote,

"I understand that. That’s true of my field as well. Things start that way. But the data eventually follows if its true. Furthermore, Einstein, Schoedinger and the like did a lot of intellectual legwork to ground their ideas. Sheldrake is not in the same neighborhood."

You apprently have no idea what you’re talking about. Sheldrake is a PhD from Cambridge who has written a slew of books including the landmark The Presence of the Past. Intellectual is as intellectual does. It’s all in the concept, Ollie. You have to start somewhere. That’s where the genius is. The math can be done later by the drudges. A journey starts with a single step, grasshopper.
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mapman
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10-28-2016 8:01pm
I’m not a seismologist but I was a geology major in college and did study geophysics. We never covered the effects on hifis. Go figure!

But off the cuff if your walls arent rattling I would not worry about it.

I did do a research project in grad school that won an award. It was on effects of earthquakes in the New Madrid Missouri area where the largest earthquakes in US history occurred. Even there I would not worry about it affecting my sound. It’s a silly topic really.

Just my 2 cents. I know gk cares. 😉

............

Looking on the bright side, at least Mapman estimated the value of his post correctly, about 2 cents. You know, saying you don't care about the topic is really not a very effective argument in any discussion. I suspect it's probably best in Mapman's particular case to remain out of topics that he's either ignorant of or has no interest. For someone who's only motive seems to be boosting his post total this bizarre strategy is bound to get him in deep kim chi.



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Agear wrote,

Geoffkait:If Morphic Resonance is not real you better alert the hundreds of customers of mine who have my products based on Morphic resonance.

"MR is superimposed onto your products. It is not necessarily the reason they work."

Actually MR is precisely the reason they work and I can prove it. By careful testing all competing theories of operation, birth conventional and unconventional, can be eliminated. Voila!

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