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Component isolation

Let’s say you’re going to add isolation feet to a component with no moving parts, such as a preamp, phono stage, DAC, amp, tuner, etc. 

Which one is most critical to the extent would get your attention first? 
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geoffkait
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“If I could explain it to the average dude they wouldn’t have given me the Nobel prize.”
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bdp24
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Frank Van Alstine was recommending a paving stone sitting on an under-inflated inner tube as a turntable isolation platform way back in the mid-80’s. I believe the idea was already very old even then, dating back to the 1950’s. The early, WWII-generation engineers and audiophiles got a lot right.
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millercarbon
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geoffkait-
“If I could explain it to the average dude they wouldn’t have given me the Nobel prize.”


Oddly enough, no Nobel Prize winner ever said that.

On the other hand Richard Feynman, who really did win a Nobel Prize, actually did say, "If you can't explain something in simple terms you don't understand it." https://kottke.org/17/06/if-you-cant-explain-something-in-simple-terms-you-dont-understand-it



n80
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Or as the T-shirt says : "I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you."
tt1man
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Hello all,
As a manufacturer of pneumatic isolation devices (feet), am I permitted topost our website which contains pertinent isolation/vibration information, and an informative White Paper? If so, can our technical director also join in on this discussion? Thanks in advance for your feedback and consideration.
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