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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Atmasphere, I got it, you must be Ralph Karsten: http://www.atma-sphere.com/AboutUs#Company Why don’t you just use your name? I always use my name. Even when I owned my acoustics company I used my real name. Even before the Internet, when the main gathering place for audio talk was the Music & MIDI forum in CompuServe, I used my real name. Ralph, I find it hysterical that you sell low power tube amplifiers that don’t even quote a distortion spec, but you’re glad to criticize my choice of equipment. For the record, I still use my Pioneer receiver, and it cost all of $150 at Costco. It offers six reasonably hefty power amps with max distortion of 0.1 percent. This is not great, but it’s surely better than any tube amplifier! At full output of 110 watts with all channels driven the distortion is less than 1 percent. Since I use powered monitors and a killer powered SVS subwoofer, the Pioneer’s amp distortion is irrelevant anyway. I just use the line outputs. I find it amazing that you agree with me about overpriced power wires, and about Geoff Kait, and probably 99 percent of everything else about audio. But to avoid alienating people you want to sell stuff to, you’d rather attack the one time I forgot to qualify power cords as needing to be competent. And to think some folks here called me a shill! I’m new to this forum, but I can see based on the replies that many here prefer to remain willfully ignorant. That’s fine! If you peeps find the truth about audio fidelity offensive, you’re welcome to ignore facts and buy overpriced crap that makes zero difference in sound quality or is even worse than "normal" gear. It might seem that one-off boutique audio gear would be better than mass-produced amplifiers and DACs etc. In fact, it’s the opposite. If Sony makes a mistake it can cost them millions of dollars. So these large companies hire the very best engineers and designers they can. And for the most part their products reflect that. I’ll take a $400 Crown power amp over some BS $15,000 amp featured in Stereophile every day of the week! |
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