Does anyone use wood for vibration control?

Who is more obsessive compulsive, tweakers or Tuners? Let’s take maple platforms (boards) for example. You got your air dried maple from Mapleshade. You got your maple with grain running vertically and maple with grain running horizontally. There are varying thicknesses of maple, the thicker maple boards resisting bending forces better than thinner maple boards. There’s also the tricky issues of mounting the maple board and mounting the component on the maple or other material. So, what is the best way to mount the maple board and the component?

The best way to mount the maple board (or any material) and the component is extremely hard cones. The harder the cones the better the sound - fuller, more open, more natural. As it turns out materials like aluminum 2.75 and carbon fiber and brass 3.0 and hardwood are actually relatively soft, on the Mohs scale of Hardness, where diamond is a perfect 10. Lead is 1.75. An excellent choice for cone material would be hardened high carbon steel 7-8 (like my Machina Dynamica springs) or NASA grade ceramic 9.5, both of which are quite high on the Mohs scale of Hardness.

And we haven’t even talked about using springs with maple boards. The final frontier.

Glubson, there are steel coil springs, steel leaf springs, gas shocks, oil filled gas shocks, air springs. They’re all springs. To qualify as a spring they have to behave as a spring. And they certainly do behave as springs - otherwise they wouldn’t work. Proof by inspection. 🤗 I don’t mind running a class on remedial physics.

No wood here.  I use sorbathane feet, spikes, lead weights and such.

geoffkait,

I get it. You simply do not get it. Your comparison of whatever with car shock absorbers was unfortunate choice as car shock absorbers have changed/developed since 1965. Proof by inspection. Much more goes into them than a semantic game of the word "springs" would make you believe.

Your example is quite good when oversimplified, thinking of two coil springs on top of each other and ignoring the fact that less of a spring will yield similarly unpleasant result. When picking and choosing, try to make sure you do not leave out something important.

With understanding of your misunderstanding, but continuing the word game you play not-so-well, I would like to remind you that there are no sound waves at all. They do not exist. Can you wrap your thoughts about that? Hint: take a physiology book, Wikipedia will make you confused. As it frequently has.

midareff135
No wood here. I use sorbathane feet, spikes, lead weights and such.

>>>>>You might want to peruse what I wrote earlier today here regarding Hard and Soft materials for use in audio situations.