Alternatives to Stillpoints

TW Isolation feet much better and much cheaper as well.

thyname,

How did the Ingress Engineering compare to the Symposium?

I generally won’t pay for snake-oil tweaks and exotic cables. However, I really like Center Stage Footers by Critical Mass Systems. Pricing by any standards borders on ridiculous - until you hear what they do. The explanation for how they work is pure obfuscation to me. I didn’t want to like them....

You can find comparisons reviews to Stillpoints. Don’t read them! If you try them, you won’t thank me for this.

Oh, I also like Herbie’s for tube dampers. The footers are ok, but not in the same sonic league, or price bracket as the CMS gizmos. Thank God!

Homemade low cost recipe:

quartz feet /granite plate/ sorbothane/Granite plate/ cork plate/ bamboo plate/ granite plate/sorbothane....Cost is under 100 dollars for the 2 speakers and the same cost for dac+amp

This controls resonance and damp it with diverse densities of materials at low cost....My speakers are under load (70 pounds)also....My speakers are on my desk beside the dac and the amplifier that are on top of the same sandwiches....No vibrations are sensed at all with my finger on my desk at high volume with drums.... Not perfect but very good....

Ack chew ally, you cannot control the very low frequency seismic type vibrations with materials such as mahgister just mentioned no matter how exotic the materials or in what combination. If it was that easy everyone could do it. 🤗 And LIGO the project to detect and observe very low frequency gravity waves ♒️ would not (rpt not) have required the long 20 year program of vibration isolation development to be able to sufficiently reduce the effects of seismic vibration type noise on the experiment.

What is required for audio systems is a mass-on-spring isolation system of sufficiently low natural frequency Fn to be effective for the critical frequencies 8-20 Hz. For cables and power cords a simple suspension by strong thread from eye 👁 hooks in the ceiling will suffice. So I have just distinguished between isolation and damping. You can still use your exotic materials for damping. I am looking for people who want perfect, not just good.