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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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agear wrote,

"Kait, since Sheldrake makes an argument for things like telepathy and telekinesis (https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/scientific-heretic-rupert-sheldrake-on-morphic-fiel...), would't that be the ultimate form of equipment isolation? Use our minds to float the stuff. Now that is from the future"

Yes, it's from the future. Your future. But my present.

have a good one
theaudiotweak
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Even if it floats it will still suffer from shear wave interference. It needs to be rigidly coupled to remove and dissipate the polarity of shear that becomes a part of the signal. Tom. Star Sound Technologies
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theaudiotweak
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Even if it floats it will still suffer from shear wave interference. It needs to be rigidly coupled to remove and dissipate the polarity of shear that becomes a part of the signal. Tom. Star Sound Technologies


Sorry, Tom, but that statement cannot possibly be true. If it were true, which it’s not, the LIGO project to detect gravity waves produced by merging galaxies, merging black holes and the Big Bang would never have been able to develop isolation systems capable of reducing the seismic background noise sufficiently to be able to observe gravity waves with amplitudes on the order of the diameter of a neutron. Which, by the way, is much much smaller than the diameter of an atom. Follow?

Have a nice week,

Geoff Kait
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give me a strong enough spring and I'll isolate the world
theaudiotweak
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Nope..I do not and will not follow you!

The Ligo system maybe designed to destroy all polarities of shear and maybe it works well at that function to extract and detect gravity waves. 

Polarties of shear..are a part of the mechanical function of speakers and other reproduced audio signal ..signals that will be reduced in amplitude by your methods and others you tout. Key negative words to descibe your methods..Canellation and forces to overcome the Interia your methods present to any thing that has a chance of motion for reproducing a copy of the original signal. Think of a voice coil..think of stylus motion. They have to overcome the body of resistance and counter action your wares present to any responsive and linear motion. Tom

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