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Ceramic insulator cone under phono stage shocker!

I have used small ceramic insulator cones underneath my phono stage for quite some time.
Previous phono was a Gold note ph10 and it did not make ANY audible difference I could detect which way up the cones were so I had left them cone upwards.

When I changed my phono to a Manley Chinook I just left the cones same way.
This afternoon I decided to flip them over so cone down just to see.

I honestly could not and cannot believe the difference!
I may have lost a smidge of low bass but everywhere else is improved in spades.
Much more detail, resolution, air, imaging, dynamics.
Just completely shocking how much better a small change has made.

But I am perplexed why such a huge change on the Chinook where I noted nothing on the ph10?

Any theories here?
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slaw
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@david_ten ,

Well it seems to be a lot about "tuning" doesn’t it? Of coarse, and correct me if I'm wrong, but here we're talking about using the MIGs inside a system that has been properly decoupled from it's environment?
david_ten
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@slaw Yes. : ) The MIGs are a solution, one among many. My response was generic. If someone has them, or can borrow them, they are worth experimenting with. I find they have subtle effects on top of component chassis, as well. 
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I used Super DH Cones on top of components and speakers, as “node dampers.” Anyone recall Totem Beak? At one point in time way back when, maybe fifteen years ago I probably had at least 25 Supers in the room. On walls, too. Oh, and around 50 of the jumbo, medium and small DH Cones, too. I was not shy about using DH Cones. That was around the time I would require blindfolds before entering the room. Which, thinking back now seems a little excessive.
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@david_ten ,

Your presence here has seemingly acted like GK's "Dark Matter", it has had a controlling effect on him.
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I doubt Geoff brakes for me. : )
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