Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics?

I’ll email you about my project because I imagine you’ll find it interesting. And maybe you’ll be around for a phone call over the holiday "dead" week between Xmas and New Years? I'm sure we do in fact agree on 90+ percent of this stuff!

I'm usually around- quite often that is our busiest week of the year.

I am familiar with the nulling technique- hard to get through school without knowing that. I am skeptical that the test will have the resolution required but I suspect that will have a lot to do with what exactly is being tested.

A customer of mine liked to replace parts in the power supplies of his equipment. In order to know if he made any progress he placed a microphone in his room at the listening chair and then ran sweeps and distortion tests, and compared them to 'before' and 'after'. He was thus able to document what he heard.

ethan_winer
It’s clear that Geoff Kait doesn’t understand what nulling is or how it works. I’ll give you a clue: it doesn’t "measure" anything. Here’s a more complete explanation, not that you’re interested in learning anything but maybe others are:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYTlN6wjcvQ&t=53m39s

Right, only geniuses like yourself can understand nulling. Only a genius would be able to find some hare brained method to prove his phoney foregone conclusion. You'd fit in very well in the witch hunts of yore.

Can you null the same component ouput when played from a Sistrum Platform and then the same component played from a Springy Thing Platform?. Of course when you playback the difference output you need to choose which platform to launch from.

If you were to add the difference to the Springy Thing Platform on the rerun it would gain about 1.5 db in amplitude and lite up the wall behind the speakers versus just the orginal Springy Thing playback .Tom

What a totally useless thread full of ad hominem attacks. If the OP actually cares anymore I will add that I concur with Mapman. Apart from turntables, tubes, and speakers, for the most part any mechanical vibration isolation is totally unnecessary with most SS electronics. This can be proven quite simply by gently tapping the chassis and noting that no sound comes out the speaker even with the volume turned up fully. (Of course, don’t try this with a tube amp or with a turntable or with a sledgehammer)

I would add that a large transformer on a massive power amp can vibrate or hum audibly and so can an optical drive when close to the component but this sound is not coming out from the speakers if the equipment is working properly.

I use a Sistrum platform to increase the chemical reactivity of my deep cell marine battery that powers my dac..The 70 lb. battery sits on this platform. That is the result I hear. While the battery is not solid state there is a marked improvement in sound quality of all my ss gear when placed on these same platforms. Even the battery. I have inside both amps the same technology under the circuit boards and everything else that touches the chassis floor. It’s all mechanically grounded from the inside out. It all launches from the same mechanical ground plane. Tom