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The Best Isolation/ Vibration Footers per component - what's your experience?

Hi everyone,

There are probably a dozen of threads out there on Isolation/ Vibration footers out there, but there hasn't been thus far one been that combines the following two assumptions:

1. Isolation/ Vibration effectiveness differs per type of component (from source to speaker).
2. The above with Most Popular brands available as per July 2020.

Some of the most recognised brands thus far:
  
  • Arya Audio
  • Artesania Audio
  • Aurios
  • Black Diamond Racing
  • Critical Mass Systems
  • Gingko
  • Harmonic Resolution Systems
  • Harmonix
  • Iso-Acoustics
  • Shun Mook
  • Silent Running Audio
  • Star Sound Technologies
  • Stillpoints
  • Symposium
  • Townshend

The reason for starting this thread is that in the past few months I have been reading that the Critical Mass Centerstage 2 footers are beating all or most of the above solutions from the other named brands. However, it seems that the Arya Audio Revopods are also beating most of the brands in some high-end select forums and groups as well. 

Do you use and or have/ had any experience with the above and where did you place them and why?

Here is my setup currently.

1. Source/ Network player: Star Sound Technologies Sistrum platform
2. Pre-Amp: No footer yet (Artesania Audio rack)
3. Amplifier: No footer yet (Artesania Audio rack)
4. Power conditioner: Harmonic Resolution Systems Nimbus & HRS platform footers
5. Power supplies for source: Stillpoints
6. Router: Stillpoints
7. Speakers: Stillpoints

I found out that this works the best in my system, but would like to know your experience as I found that using these footers and their effectiveness really depends on the component. Specifically, I would like to hear your experience with Arya Audio and Centerstage 2 footers?
richardhk
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mahgister
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As crazy as I know it looks,
millercarbon, everybody will laugh at my last homemade creation.... a reverse engineering of a costly tweak...

" Twin fans combing sound" room enhancement.....

Cost: peanuts, 2 unused hot summer fans....


:)

But anybody can laugh,

My motto is, listen with your ears, create your own heaven....Hifi cost peanuts....If you want....

By the way i believe you for the 1.3 millions system comparison.....I know that firsthand....

Electronic components design are mature design without great impact for the last 50 years except some....The greatest impact comes, not so much  from  the choice of an electronic component over an another one (upgrading myth) but comes from the embeddings controls methods.... I discover that by myself with listening experiments....

P.S. i never post a photo of my grid of stones.... Too crazy.....You can see only a small part of it in my room next to the Schumann generators.... :)
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millercarbon
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Some of the stuff I can see enough to figure out and understand what's going on. In part anyway. But would sure be nice if you would take each individual thing and explain what it is, how its made, etc.
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mahgister
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Anyway my audio room is very satisfying but not beautiful like yours except for my children’s son...." mad scientist lair" for them....

I am glad now that i never had the money to upgrade..... :)


« Poverty is the mother of science»- Homo erectus 
skyscraper
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Since you didn’t mention your budget I’ll second mrmb’s statement the Isoacoustic line offers a lot for the money. They are not inexpensive by any means, but recognizably improve your systems performance in exactly the ways they advertise and reviewers say they will. Hard to believe, but true, at least with my system. Being cynical, even after a considerable research, I honestly thought, they’d not make much difference. I was wrong. After demoing their Orea feet one only one component, I ended up splurging and putting them under all the system components including their Gaias under my Magicos. Spent my whole economic stimulus check on them.

For more money, and you know the sky is the limit on high end audio products, you might be able to wring out even better performance from the products you named, and are most curious about. Good luck with your choice. And please let us know how it turns out.

Mike
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