Evolution Acoustics MMMicroOne

Tbg,
Thanks for sharing your experiences. I am familiar with the LSA stands. I assembled a pair for a friend of mine. They are nice looking. And the fact that they come with the filler is kinda cool. But I would hardly consider them a "Solid" stand. At least the ones that I put together. They were a combination of wood and extruded aluminum, held together by short metal screws. Hardly what I would consider sturdy. So I'm not surprised by your experience. I know flimsy stands are not something you'd expect a lot of performance from. But my example is far from that.

Beyond that, adding a device like the still points is a whole other ball game anyway. Besides the fact that they are an isolation device, they are items beyond the scope of the stand.

So my curiosity still stands. How is it that the stand itself, IF built solidly (like Sound Anchors), makes that much difference and how does $1500 for threaded brass increase performance over solid welded steel? (~$350) We could argue the effectiveness of isolation versus coupling. But as far as I'm understanding so far that is outside the scope of the stand itself.

Anyway, I just want to reiterate that I'm not trying to be combative. I'm just looking for reasons as to why one stand will be all that different from another. (Assuming it is solid and well built!) Always looking to learn something!

Audiocircle report for the RMAF, featuring these speakers:
http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=91f7bo4op3i0ad64dgfmcj2567&topic=110588.0

in case it has not already been pointed out, at RMAF the MMMicro stand's spikes were resting on the Wave Kinetics 2UN's decoupling footers.

i'm using these on my loaner Unifield 3's and i will be using 2 sets of 8 on my MM7's.

these really work well.

Prdprez, what isolation products have you tried with your speakers?

Mike, I know the Wave Kinetics is supposed to be a good product (a derivative of Stanford engineering). I would be curious to see what they would offer in terms of stand design or modifications beyond the use of footers. Starsound technologies is also an engineer-driven company and has a fine product. The seminal white paper and foundation for their particular brand of isolation is also derived from the Stanford engineering department.

I have screwed around with Stillpoints with my current speakers (which their stands were designed around), Sistrum stands for electronics and now room/wall grounding, and the Equarack footers also under electronics. As expected with audio evolution, these products all outperformed my older generation stands that Prdprez is presumably referring to. By extension, these same principles are or can be applied to the speaker cabinet itself. Gone are the days of MDF, black hole, and steel rod bracing....

Prdprez, everything has a resonant frequency, so all stands sound different. Filling a stand with lead shot greatly lowers the resonant frequency. Isolation and coupling are the same thing, just different frequencies.