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
Nathan _Winer wrote,

"So this is my last comment for now:"

Is that a promise or a threat?

😎


Geoffkait: Really. Besides, lots of things cause that metallic quality. E.g., RFI/EMI, vibration, background scattered light. As I’ve oft stated, in addition to that metallic quality there’s that thin quality, the rolled off quality, the bass shy quality, the congealed pablum quality, the screechy irritating quality, the electronic quality, the boring empty quality, the recorded-in-a-barrel quality, the uninterleaved quality. I trust I’m not the only one who hears it, am I?

agear
Agreed 100%. RFI/EMI is a biggie although a lot of people think that’s hogwash as well (along with the subject of this thread).

right, again. Like seismic vibration especially.

Things that are more noticed when they are removed than they were by virtue of their presence. It wasn't until I heard the transparency provided by an electrostatic loudspeaker that I realized just how colored, veiled, and opaque cone speakers were.

One of the intrinsic benefits of the long term listening audition of any given component is that the character of that component is often more readily apparent when the component is removed from the system than when it was inserted.

 
bdp24
Things that are more noticed when they are removed than they were by virtue of their presence. It wasn't until I heard the transparency provided by an electrostatic loudspeaker that I realized just how colored, veiled, and opaque cone speakers were.

That's so true! There is also the Last Tweak Syndrome at work here. For any red blooded audiophile who has integrated some tweaks into his system over the years there comes a point when he says to himself, gee whiz, it can't get any better than this, can it? Then the next tweak comes along and he says, Gosh, now it really can't get any better, can it? So the skepticism of many folks is not completely without merit. It's the Last Tweak Syndrome in action.


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