I’m surprised that magnetic levitation hasn’t been brought up. Really helps with digital and tub equipment. HigherFi made some great strides in this area the last few years.
What's the best isolation system?
Let's hear your ideas on isolation. I'm hoping this will be a survey of systems featuring the different cone products including Mapleshade Triplepoints and heavy hats, Audiopoints various sizes and their footers, Black Diamond, DB Systems etc; through products like Vibrapod and the sorbathane gel feet,include the bearing type products like Aurios, and how you implemeneted or combined systems for the best sound.
If anyone has tried the Van Slyke Engineering Tri Orbs that have been heavily advertised I'd like to know also.
For instance I'm now using a hybrid Vibrapod sandwich which includes a set of Vibrapods (tumed for each component) a quarter inch piece of plate glass, and then Audiopoint or Mapleshade cones (I'm trying to decide between the two.) I have arrived at this combo by a couple of years of listening in a friends and my system by carefully substituting one product at a time.
Hope to hear from you all.
Steve
If anyone has tried the Van Slyke Engineering Tri Orbs that have been heavily advertised I'd like to know also.
For instance I'm now using a hybrid Vibrapod sandwich which includes a set of Vibrapods (tumed for each component) a quarter inch piece of plate glass, and then Audiopoint or Mapleshade cones (I'm trying to decide between the two.) I have arrived at this combo by a couple of years of listening in a friends and my system by carefully substituting one product at a time.
Hope to hear from you all.
Steve
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this thread is so ’2002’; if you scroll up you will see posts of mine from 18 years ago. but things have changed and technology has moved on. there is a new sheriff in town, it’s called ’active isolation’. https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/active-isolation-what-can-it-do-for-music-reproduction as far as magnetic levitation; it’s passive and has it’s pluses and minuses. i used to own an SAP Relaxa 1 mag-lev table, which was just ok. there are other passive approaches that are better. mag lev and hifi are best together with turntable drive systems, not isolation from feedback resonance.....IMHO. but no passive can touch active when your situation allows active to be used. active has limitations which the thread i linked address. it’s not a one size fits all solution. but it is the best isolation solution yet devised. it’s what state of the art science and industry uses |
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