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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
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geoffkait
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Active might be nice for millionaires and LIGO. Passive is good enough for everyone else. 🤗 By the way, active also floats, settles, overshoots, is corrected, floats, settles, overshoots, etc. Also, if you train a camera on a passive iso device whilst music is playing the camera will not detect any motion. 
mikelavigne
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in a micro-nano particle context i agree active has the same weaknesses, simply much much less than passive.

but science and industry accept the precision of active isolation to help them accomplish appropriate tasks effectively.

agree it’s expense is prohibitive. i got a little carried away. i do appreciate having it though. someone has to be at that end of the music reproduction resonance isolation bell curve.
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geoffkait
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Most people don’t know isolation is an art as much as a science. There is a wrong way and a right way to implement isolation, even passive isolation. If you could hear what I’ve heard with your ears. 🤗 Look at the sentence I added to my previous post regarding the non- movement of passive iso devices. It’s not as if they - the passive devices - are moving up and down as you intimated. They are also micro nano movements.
theaudiotweak
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Material science and geometry. You cannot correct for motion artifacts with devices that also have motion artifacts. They will never respond the same even as a polar opposite. Shape...and shapes help determine direction. Material selection determines signal speed/shear wave velocity on and thru the material. Thats why everything sounds different and makes a difference. Tom
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