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Has anyone had experiences good or bad with speaker isolation or isolation in general ?

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i have been enjoying buying and listening to hifi for some 35 years now and have seen many items come and go.I have also been interested in the audio cable discussions and i agree that cables do make a difference how much of a difference is a very individual, and a system dependent situation. There has been nothing that has got me so excited and improved the sound of my system that has ever made me want to really share it with fellow audiophiles until i started to try various isolation products.With so much choice from affordable to very expensive i found the hole subject very confusing and i did not know where to start. After trying lots of various products all shapes and sizes with very different results i decided to read reviews which is something i do not usually do to get some advise.I read a review on the Townshend audio seismic podiums they are isolation platforms that go under your speakers .This company is very famous for isolation ideas and have been around some 50 years based here in the UK they also had a factory in the USA back in the 1980s. I contacted Nick at Emporium hifi  and he agreed to install a pair for me so i could have a listen. My speakers are sound-lab dynastats which i use in quite a small room but with the adjustments give a nice sound. After installing the podiums we both sat down with jaws hitting the floor these podium things completely transformed the sound of my system to absolute perfection. After all this time trying various products under my equipment i have now isolated my speakers and the sound quality is exactly what i believe we all are chasing, my sound-labs are now transparent no more bass problems i have just got one big 3D sound stage the dynastats are now very open with deeper much better bass everything is perfect. I now believe isolating your loudspeakers is the first port of call i was so impressed by the Townshend audio seismic products i now sell them as i have never come across anything that has given my system such a great upgrade , the sound is the same as before but now its just so much better its playing deeper bass but tighter much more resolution and no boom , the midrange is so much more human sounding realistic and spacious with the top end so refined and perfect , is anyone using podiums and had the same experiences i would love to hear from you thank you john 
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mains OP
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Now now girls put your claws away, it you can not bring anything better to the table or have nothing decent to say , then please say nothing,
The discussion is an open discussion regarding my experiences and asking other audiophiles to share there experiences with speaker isolation or isolation in general,
My very long journey ended with Townshend Audio Seismic Isolation, they are a 50 year old company based in the UK but back in the 80s i believe manufactured on USA soil of course the head of affairs is the great very passionate Audiophile/Engineer Max Townshend he is an absolutely wonderful gentleman that never says a bad word about anybody’s ideas or products,
Please check out the youtube video spikes v Podiums,
If you are a true audiophile this discussion is aimed at yourselves, i have been enjoying hifi for at least 35 years i have never owned a hifi shop or outlet,
I am making no money from this discussion just passing on my findings regarding isolation, if you have purchased Townshend Seismic Isolation before this discussion or since this discussion you are know experiencing why i started this discussion in the first place,
Townshend Audio Seismic isolation Podiums are a grand breaking product everybody should at least audition them under there own speakers at home if you want to truly hear your system at its very best,
If you are a dealer/engineer yourself all the parts where out there for you to design your own Seismic Isolation Products, if your products were world class receiving magnificent reviews then there would of been a chance i could of read about them and maybe even had them recommended to me, but alas that is fiction, i am merely sharing facts and hopefully helping another audiophile experience the upgrade in sound i got, and enjoying.
I will be starting a discussion regarding choice of High End cd/sacd/dvda players soon, i personally have owned La source, MSB tech, DCS, Wadia EMM labs and Esoteric to name a thew ,my favorite is the late Esoteric K03 with the built in volume the K01 was out of my budget , i suppose i will be accused of being a dealer of Esoteric as well


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geoffkait
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Right on cue! The long (long) journey to audio Xandu. Yawn!
mains OP
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Hi sorry to all genuine audiophiles that read this, i must aim this at one person who is not happy about my sharing of a real world class product
to Mr you know who you are, If you have run out of anything useful to say please say no more, it is obvious you have finished your journey in hifi, where like myself and 1000s of other audiophiles we are still enjoying ours, 
Most of the time i day dream about some of the really high end equipment that i could never own but i have nothing negative to say regarding the lucky people that can,
you seem to have great knowledge of isolation and i am thinking you are a very intelligent person, all i can say to you is wheres your passion gone for hifi, the good old days were the good old days, time waits for no man, products improve 
if you have lost your passion towards hifi maybe its time to hang up them speakers,
to me hifi is my life not my business, i have met some great friends threw my passion for hifi i can not think of one enemy except maybe yourself,
you have added great knowledge to this discussion,
if it was one of your products i was mentioning i guess you would hold back your negative comments, you have had 3 or 4 posts removed because they were of no interest in the discussion and were insulting, i am interested in any ones advice or opinion on anything that can help make the recorded arts sound realistic,
if i have favorite products its because they have brought me closer to the sound of live music, placing my soundlabs on Townshend Audio Seismic Podiums is the biggest upgrade in sound quality i have heard from my system, i will not say any different for you or anyone else because its true and i hope all audiophiles out there still enjoying our growing hobby, life style, can now narrow down there search for isolation in a world where choice has made most purchases quite confusing, out of 1000s of different brands i am very interested to know which ones stand out, if i find a needle in the haystack i will pass on my findings to everyone who is interested. 

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geoffkait
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What’s insulting is the shamless non stop shilling. Which wouldn’t be so bad were it not for the fact you’re repeating yourself over and over again. By the way you still haven’t learned how to make paragraphs which is another source of annoyance. For someone from England your English is atrocious.

mains OP
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My my insults insults and more insults, i do not understand shilling but it sounds like your jealous
As for my English this is not important you must be able to read it as you keep on telling me off, i am all about the music and creating that magic system that takes you there, over here in the UK we are experiencing groundbreaking isolation products, i am merely sharing the news.
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