Cartridge ISOLATION; What Say You?

These days, he's not widely recognized. Surely not a "fringe company"

Making a Claim about the Proprietor of the Company or their History in the HiFi Industry is something I did not refer to.
I am very up to date on the Companies Products and the History of the Proprietor.

I did make a statement about the Companies Position in the Market
Fringe Company - Not Part of the Mainstream - Peripheral - At the Extreme, I think I am reasonably accurate with this assessment.

I have no objection to how or where a person spends their hard earned cash, my storage boxes are full of unused items from such spending.

In saying that though, Long-Term buried and very difficult to find Rothwell Attenuators, once found, proved to be a very valuable reintroduction recently, especially the -15db.

@lewm yes, sadly the steady diet has diminished big time… 

I am a fan of New Yorker ;-) My lovely has the digital subscription… so i benefit….and The Economist in the same breath.

@lewm , I saw Tower of Power at the Hampton Beach Casino three weeks ago. As good as ever but not the best sound system. Not a situation you would want to use as a standard but their current singer has the largest lungs I have ever heard. Guy can belt out a tune for sure. Saw Wilco 2 weeks ago. Jeff Tweedy is a piece of work. Better sound system but but still not suitable to use as a standard to evaluate Hi Fi sound.
@atmasphere , Was that you talking or someone else? I certainly could not have said it better. It seems to have gone in one eye and out the other. Can you please tell me what tomwh is talking about? 
The only thing I care to add is that mass does not provide isolation from low frequency disruptions like foot falls and environmental rumble. It will diminish higher frequency pollution. To get rid of low frequency noise you take the rigid platter, tonearm, cartridge sub chassis and hang it from springs tuned to a very low frequency or place it on something like a MinusK platform. 
@tomwh , you are entitled to believe whatever you want, whatever that is.

Years ago I built my own cartridge isolator and yes it makes a difference. I have abandoned it as I use better cartridges now. The whole idea of f=ma or whatever science formula using to prove a point doesn’t exactly jive as the vibration of the damping needed isn’t close enough to the dampening maximum provided by the isolator. It’s like a mouse pushing on the side of a building, sure it’s pushing but can you measure it? I won’t even try a new isolator as I feel it’s immaterial to my current cartridge choices.

"a new isolator... is immaterial".  That's it! The perfect isolator is no isolator.