Does anyone use wood for vibration control?


What kind of wood have you found to be best?
bksherm
Contrary to popular belief, I am really not trying to pick on anybody, but I see some not-entirely-correct assumptions in one of the above posts.

"My headphone system is completely independent of…...echos, standing waves.....early reflections....."
All those may be less prominent in headphones, even less in earphones, but "completely" may be an exaggeration. Above statement may be mildly insulting to any serious headphone designer.

"I avoid the noise and distortion that accompanies.....speaker cables,"
True, if Bluetooth is in play. Otherwise, just a different name for the same thing. Speaker cable, headphone cable, ear speaker cable.

"I avoid noise and distortion that accompanies transformers, large capacitors and fuses."
Are there small capacitors anywhere? If yes, are they perfect for this purpose?

"Immunity to vibration."
Smaller devices, namely SONY Walkmen and Discmen (CD Walkman, to cut that debate short) were so prone to vibration that SONY and other manufacturers included ESP (Electronic Skip Protection) in many on their products. Not to make them perfect in some theoretical sense discussed on Audiogon, but to make them playable at all. They were so sensitive to vibration that it is not even funny to make fun of the above statement.
@glubson, hey man, music is vibration (is vibratory even a real word?), and hi-fi components musical instruments. To prevent vibration from reaching Walkmen and Discmen (and all other components, even those nasty HEA high-mass dinosaurs) is to kill the music they make. Don’t kill the music, let vibrations run free, like you and me.
glubson catches on fast. Yes, the Sony Walkman is not (rpt not) susceptible to vibration. If you know what to listen for you can hear it. Way to go, glubson! 🤗 Not to mention my 12 ounce system does not have a whole lot of mass and stuff hanging off it to even vibrate. If you could hear what I hear with my ears....
Note to self. I still haven’t got an answer to my question why mechanical feedback in the audio system is dismissed, ignored or overlooked by tuners. Do tuners just sweep it under the rug?

Just I little update. As with some of the topics here that I get involved in I start receiving emails wanting to know more. One of those emails was from a member here who has been reading the TuneLand archives, especially the Jim Bookhard reviews and articles. After my talk with him we've started reposting Jim's work. I'll give a link to this area on TuneLand after a few of the articles get republished.

stay tuned!

Michael Green

http://tuneland.forumotion.com/f18-jim-bookhard-reviews