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
randy-11
we could hire an abnormal psychologist to find out

why? We already have a pretty good number of abnormal pseudo-psychiatrists here now. No offense to you personally, scooter 😛

Agear wrote,

"I have done my fair share of physics (and not at Imagination U). Do us a favor. Get out of your jammies, put the keyboard down, and do something meaningful. Recycling the same tired lines over and over is not proof of concept nor is illusions to adverbials and white papers and vintage Stereophile articles. Hello?"

your fair share of physics? You don’t even know the difference between room nodes and vibration isolation. You should stick to plants. No wonder it took you 7 years to get out of school. No worries, I’m being entertained.
Half of geoffkait's posts are re-posts of whatever he's responding to, which I feel is a waste of pixels as what he's responding to is already there. That said, I also feel that there's a lot of money spent needlessly on various spiked or isolating or otherwise insanely over designed audio shelving, speaker cord holders, expensive cones, spongy decouplers (I use those…not sure if they do anything except under my speakers), and other stuff that does nothing audible. Note: Vibration touches everything anyway if its in the room with speakers, and that's OK…really…it is...
Rather than waiting for measured "proof" that any given product marketed as providing isolation from vibration actually does so (and further, that such isolation is not just academic, but actually provides an improvement in sound), you may in many cases try one and decide for yourself. Symposium Acoustics, makers of a couple of different roller bearing feet (named Roller Blocks) and isolation shelves, sell their products with a money-back guarantee. If you don't hear a difference, or one too small to justify the cost, return the product for a refund. Unless you aren't secure in your own ability to hear, and need an authority figure to validate your purchase decision ;-).