What’s your vote for the most ridiculous, overpriced, and useless tweak?

People still get their panties in a bunch over certain words and phrases. You know, like crystalline, crystal, quantum, Graphene, artificial atoms ⚛️, directionality, anything perceived or in reality as not in the signal path, things of that nature. Most likely a simple case of neophobia. Don’t freak out and don’t get hung up. 🤗 Hey, where did all the Blind Test fanatics go? 😳 “I bet it can’t pass a double blind test!” 😛

I tried to tell you. Sorbothane is one of most vile and pernicious materials ever foisted on naive gullible audiophiles. It seems like the perfect material, too. Not too hard, not too soft. Just right! Suck those offending vibrations right up!! Whoopie! 🤗 I suspect you’re just starting to see the tip of the iceberg. Wait’ll ya start playing around with springs, NASA grade ceramics, granite, constrained layer damping. Just think of all the combinations. But you have to have a plan. Otherwise, it’s just shooting blanks in the dark.

Geoff ...

These are just a few of the things I’ve done to reduce micro-vibrations.

All of my electronics sit on a multi-layered rack, with constrained damping material between each layer. Then the shelves are finished off with an attractive finish material. You can see the rack in my virtual systems.

In addition to the above, each electrical component sits on a nicely finished, very heavy granite platform. Each granite platform was built in two layers, with constrained damping material between the layers. The surfaces of the granite slabs are machined to very fine tolerances to assure a perfectly level fit for the dampening material.

My turntable sits on one of the granite platforms described above. Then, between the turntable and the granite platform is what could be described as small foam donuts with a carbon steel ball bearing tightly pressed into the center of each "donut." The separate Well-Tempered TT motor sits on those "donuts" as well.

On graphene ... Perfect Path Technologies all the way, baby.

Elizabeth ...

I had a heck of a time getting my floor standing speakers to sound right on the raised foundation. Bass was boomy, which of course, affected the rest of the sound, I tried the above granite platforms under the speakers. That cleared up the sound immensely, but there was virtually no bass. So, I bought two of the Mapleshade 2" thick maple platforms. I spiked the platforms to the floor, then spiked the speakers to the platforms. Walla! everything snapped into focus. The result was a very articulate, deep bass, and a much-improved midrange and highs. I highly recommend the Mapleshade maple platforms. You can order them unfinished and save a lot of money on them. That’s what I did. Here’s a link:

https://www.mapleshadestore.com/airdriedmapleplatforms.php

Frank

PS: The glass tabletop is removed for listening sessions. Nice improvement there as well.

@mahgister  Thank-you for reminding everyone that your ROOM is the most important "tweak" in the path.

Cheers!