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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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randy-11
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11-17-2016 4:39pm
the idiocy never stops, does it?

No, not from you it doesn’t, Zippy. You’re like the wind up little mental defective monkey.

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agear OP
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Oh, a slow pitch, eh? Springs double the dynamic range the same way they double the S/N ratio. By decreasing mechanical noise sufficiently. Noise, you know, the denominator of the term S/N. So it would be fair to say springs can double the dynamics and the resolution. Follow?

Dare I go one step further and say by reducing mechanical vibration for the CD player the (analog) optical reading process is improved significantly, thereby greatly improving the digital signal downstream?
Nonsense. What E-school did you theoretically attend again?
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Can't validate the doubling part (no measuring equipment), but the improvement in the sound quality of my system with the Solid-Tech Discs of Silence (spring footers) under my SACD player and also springs underneath my amplifier yielded significant improvements in lowering the noise floor, reducing distortion, and at least the perception that dynamic range and S/N ration greatly improved.
dlcockrum, I am not sure anyone has validated that.  Mr. Kait certainly has not.  I have used a litany of "isolation" devices and they all have an effect in one way or another.  It would theoretically be possible to measure (with the appropriate software) changes in jitter performance of power conditions, cables, and yes even mattress springs, cones, etc.  It would be fun to find out:  http://www.stereophile.com/rmaf2010/nordost_and_vertex_measurements/index.html#93gQlSDoQbQHAYeT.97

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