Lifters ForGetting Cables Off The Floor, Worth It Or Snake Oil

folkfreak is in one of the most extreme construction-active cities in the U.S.A. right now---Portland Oregon! There is active construction on just about every street in the city. I go into town a few times a week, and am relived when I get back to the Salmon Creek area of Vancouver Washington, about a 20 minute car ride away. Peace and quiet! Plus, my electrical power station is only a 1/4 mile from my house, in a neighborhood with residential housing only---no industry, even light. More quiet. Makes my tinnitus even more audible!

Fifteen years ago a audio buddy came to me to ask advice on what to replace his CJ MV 75a tube power amp with. Have had the same amp previous I knew what it was and how to make it perform better. Instead of beating him up to buy a replacement amp..I sent him home with a Sistrum Sp1 platform so he could direct couple his power amp to his floor or shelf system..I don't remember which it was. 

He called me the next day to tell me he no longer needed an amp and thanked me for the transformation that occurred when he removed the Townshend Seismic Sink and replaced it with the Sistrum Sp1.The fat bass blurr was  gone the stage was more open and defined and there was an impression of greater dynamics and power. He said he now knew what the amp could do and thanked me for the advice and for saving him a few large. Cliff still has the amp (re-tubed) and still has it atop the Sp1.Tom

Tom, big deal. Even if it’s true, which I seriously doubt.

"If you look hard enough you can always dig up some story to try to prove your point." - old audiophile expression

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folkfreak is in one of the most extreme construction-active cities in the U.S.A. right now---Portland Oregon! There is active construction on just about every street in the city. I go into town a few times a week, and am relived when I get back to the Salmon Creek area of Vancouver Washington, about a 20 minute car ride away. Peace and quiet! Plus, my electrical power station is only a 1/4 mile from my house, in a neighborhood with residential housing only---no industry, even light. More quiet. Makes my tinnitus even more audible!

>>> But it’s the vibrations you can’t (rpt can’t) feel that are the real problem, the ones below 10 Hz, the ones produced by the Earth crust motion and subways and traffic. That’s why the iso stands audiophiles drool over these days are the Minus K and the Herzon active ones, or the active Vibraplane, because they go LOW ENOUGH and are stiff enough to address the vibrations that are waaaay down there below 10 Hz, even below 3 Hz. You can run but you can’t hide. Who wants twenty year old technology? 

Addendum: Gee, I wonder why they have a Pacific Northwest Seismic Network? Hmmmmm.... 😬 Does anyone know what an earthquake swarm is? 😳