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
Your Highness please explain how springs selected at 3hz or 5hz or any frequency that doesn"t hurt ours..why are they not a bandpass filter. Tom
When I worked in retail hi fi ,Thiel Audio was one of our lines. The Thiel factory was 70 miles from our store and my home. The then current sales manager heard his Thiel speakers on our points and platforms at the store and also with my own Dunlavy's at my home.. He was was blowed away..he requested a design and quote for the outrigger style platforms for his new 1.2 or 2.2 speakers. Any way they took the concept and had them made in China out of pot metal and generic nails or points. The sales manager was disappointed with the results but Jim and Kathy thought their landed cost of 12 dollars American a PAIR was a good deal for them when they could retail them for 250 a pair...what a value. What a pile of crap..they were. Not a benefit to the sound or value to the customer.

I see this over and over again where a manufacturer can not see the value in higher performance parts to improve the sound of any of their components. Many don't even try..

After having several  of my direct coupled endpins installed in cellos that cost over a million dollars I am finally having retailers and luthiers who are now committed to offering their clients the best performance. When you can take a cello that sells for a mere 30k (that's a lot to me) and have it perform much like  500k Grancino then they finally decided to get their heads out of the sand. I guess they felt threatened by the lowly cheap 30 K cello that suddenly had a dramatic increase in acoustic weight and dynamic contrast..one that was easier to play because it now had less interfering energy being feed back thru the strings and bow.. and have as much as 2db more acoustic output than a replaced steel or carbon fiber spike..yea a 50 dollar spike in a million dollar instrument just like the 100k speaker with the same type of nonsense.

We test many new concepts and shapes with real instruments. Not only for sound but for how it plays and feels. If the instrument is easier to play for the cellist then there is a mechanical resistance or interference that is being reduced or removed. This is an improvement you can see in the cellist's body language and expression. If they feel more in control and more at ease then they play better and sound better. We make a direct coupled pathway between the real and the reproduced.
Tom. Star Sound
Isolating speakers (transducers are always by nature a prime source of vibrations) and associated vibrations from interacting with floors when needed makes a major difference in the room acoustics and resulting sound. Absolutely no debate there. I use Auralex subdude platforms under my floorstanders and isoacoustics stands under my monitors especially when floors are problematic which is whenever floors have give and are not completely rigid. Anyone with working ears can hear the difference. If you jump up and down and ripples show in your water setting on the floor you got a potential issue there.
Isolate your musical instrument in Carnegie Hall and hope to hear whats removed.. No ripples in our You Tube video in a night club in the middle of New York City and all of its non interference at least when using our non isolating designs. Tom
Hmm, well there are Good Vibrations ( as per Beach Boys, sorry could not resist) and bad ones.

We all get to pick and choose. Or not.

I’ve been to Carnegie Hall. Some good vibrations there these days for sure, at least what I heard at Dress Circle level. I shoot for the same at home by any means possible.

Good Vibrations.....Cheers!