Vibration Control

I have always been skeptical about the effectiveness of under component vibration absorption/control equipment. I can't say that I have tried all of them but the ones I have,  I found them to have little effect or adverse effect on the music. Furthermore I have always expected that a good rack should do the job just fine and I use Finite Elemente reference equipment to do just that.

Well to my amazement I recently had the opportunity to try out a product from Zanden Audio. Yes Zanden audio  the master Japanese electronics Guru who gave us 5000 Dac and the great 1200 Phono stage. A new product ZVA-1 ( Zanden Vibration Absorption).  These little round rubber like material with a steel disc atop sit underneath the feet of your components. I am told they will even work under speaker but I did not attempt to shift mine.

I placed these under my Phono, Line stage and power amp and put on an LP. I was amazed at the impact on the sound. If I am to summarize the impact,  the whole sound just cleaned up and not by a small margin,  it was considerable. 

I was won over and purchased the 12 I listened to and as an owner of a fairly expensive system the few hundred dollars I spent on the 12 discs was the best value for money upgrade I have made in some considerable years.

For anyone that does not have any Vibration treatment under their components I would highly recommend you check these out.

For those of you that have something I would be interested to hear their experience with whatever they have.