Footers under my speakers double the perceived value of my speakers!

Hello Douglas_ Schroder,

All vibration management devices and claims of functionality are based on theorems. There are no known science backing audio’s vibration management systems. There is no Third-Party Independent Testing that quantifies or validates any products function, so I understand how your opinions on this topic are crafted.

Regards to power and signal paths; they both deteriorate in operational inefficiency due to resonance buildup formed by vibrations. The loss of efficiency begins at the AC panel and propagates throughout all mechanical, electromechanical and acoustic pathways of the system’s entirety.

You prefer to build audio systems where our direction involves building the foundations that support the system and mechanically grounded structural listening environments along with a few successes in the world of musical instruments.

This might be an opportunity for us to learn, make a few comparisons and help each other through the process of experimentation and listening. We use a new technology where the focus is transferring resonance out and away from the equipment (at high-speed) improving the product's operational efficiency.

The evidence that our theorem of resonance transfer is functional beyond the hearing phase is the evident reduction in operating temperatures within electronic components.

We can send you a couple platforms to prove that your equipment has far more musical qualities then what you are currently hearing. To us, being a bit biased, the platform's level of importance is equal to or greater than choosing the next speaker or component or cable.

The stand you choose to own plays heavily into everything you purchase in the future. After all, only a few will ever audition or compare the performance of racking and/or speaker stands. The differences in material science, functional design and sonic results are reasonably stunning and, in our case, quite unexpected.  

Give me a call should you wish to expand our horizons.

Robert

Star Sound

Robert, thank you for your polite, well reasoned response. I will be in touch to discuss your most polite proposal. 

If you have a suspended floor with standard joists, and you use an efficient isolation system there is something I’d like to share that I became aware of.
The suspended mass will cause some compression on the floor joists, and when there is energy against the isolation system, it will also cause the flexible floor to accept a portion of the energy. (foot falls, and speakers being major culprits)

The floor, and the isolation device of choice will share the energy between them, proportional to their spring rate or Young’s modulus.
The best results I have found is by using as close to a zero stiffness (in my case wire springs) device on a very rigid substrate, where the substrate doesn’t easily deform and the energy is mostly controlled by the isolator.

What is zero stiffness? This is the easier concept to digest that I could find, "a zero stiffness structure maintains a constant potential energy, which is continuously redistributed as the structure deforms, thus eliminating any preferred position under the applied load or self-stress."

Spring steel with an engineered geometry (a manufactured spring) is one of the most efficient means of achieving this. It is the most popular device used in platforms used under electron microscopes and imaging devices used in science and medicine today. 4Hz isolation devices using passive technology use varying types of spring structures.

The goal is to hold the load, but also have the ability to accept and change shape from vibration at the minutest amount and smooth out a broad range of both frequencies and amplitudes of those frequencies - just like springs used under vehicles of every type.

Mass loading under a sprung system on floor joists may help compress by loading the floor and reduce it’s percentage of the vibration sharing, pushing a higher percentage of the energy into the isolators (preferably springs), thus performing more of the work.

The smallest amount of energy that is possibly isolated with the broadest range of frequencies and amplitude is going to work best on as rigid a base structure and a rigid object that is being isolated.

The isolated object should move easily on the device it’s isolated upon, if not easily moved, like a bobble head toy, then you know it’s not flexible and also not as isolated as it could be.

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Douglas,
It is Robert's (Starsound) products that I was specifically referring to as I use them, and I will be very surprised if you try them and don't hear a dramatic (yes, I did say dramatic) difference for the better. I look forward to the test.