Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics?

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)

Ayatollah, the thread still has some inherent value despite its schizophrenic meandering and trash talking (which I find highly amusing...). Folk freak’s most recent post and link allude to the fact that vibration can effect digital processing (and not simply interfere with a mechanical element such as a CD drive or TT). Call it a "piezoelectric effect." That is the central gist of the thread, and it remains a valid question.  The sophisticated part revolves around "how" or "what" to measure.  

Ethan, a room spectral sweep is a reasonable approach, but what sensitivity does that have to unveil more subtle juju like jitter?  I concur with Ralph (MN tube hippy that he is) that vinyl (and tape) still sounds better to my ear.  Does a room sweep reveal any differences?  I assume not so there is obviously something more to it.  I was playing digital files the other night.  I then switched over to vinyl, and suddenly, both the dog, one of our cats, and both my kids came into the room.  I still "believe" intuitively that there is something intrinsically jarring to digital file reconstruction.  Another way to address the question of the day is does vibration management improve jitter performance and or musicality? 

LOL, yes agear. I would love to see any actual accomplishments from any of these people arguing with us! At least we know that Ralph is a knowledgeable electronics engineer. But what the heck do the others know? What are their credentials? What musical instruments do they play at a professional level? What music have they composed? What recordings have they made? What circuits have they designed? What technical papers have they had printed in mainstream publications? Why should we listen to their opinion about anything? These are all absolutely serious questions. Geoff, you can go first please. :->)

agear, if you like the sound of analog tape and vinyl, then you like the sound of distortion. That’s fine! But it’s not high fidelity. Recording and mixing engineers add the amount of distortion they think is "musical" when they make the recordings. Everything doesn’t get distortion added! But some stuff does. If you like the sound of even more distortion, maybe you should take up recording and mixing as a hobby so you can dial in what you want in controlled amounts?

There is nothing jarring about digital audio. In controlled tests people are unable to tell when a 44/16 "bottleneck" is inserted into an analog playback chain. This is well known and well documented. The key is "controlled tests" which apparently many people here are unfamiliar with. :->)

What’s all this? Someone call a special meeting of the 12 Angry Men Society?

Note to self: it was just a matter of time before Nathan raised the specter of controlled blind testing. I didn’t see that coming. Fasten your seat belts. This could get ugly. 😩

I hate to judge before all the facts are in, but it appears Nathan must certainly be thinking to himself, gee, these guys haven’t banned me yet, whoops! Looks like my troll with these nitwits will be successful. Now it’s time to smack them upside the head with the old controlled blind testing crapola. That's 

ethan_winer1agear, if you like the sound of analog tape and vinyl, then you like the sound of distortion

Logical fallacy of the excluded middle, of course.