Again, looks like a great design and well executed. Thanks for the pics!
Isoacoustics Orea vs Townshend Seismic Pod on Components
I installed a set of Isoacoustics Gaia 2s on my speakers about a month ago and was extremely pleased with them. I'm now curious about the Oreas.
My components are currently placed on a good rack with Finite Elemente Cerabase footers at the bottom of the rack. I was wondering if individual isolators such as the Orea or Seismic Pod placed under components can further improve sound quality. I've read contradictory comments about the Orea. Some say they brought an appreciable difference when placed under components such as DAC or amplifiers. Some say they bring nothing to the sound, zero difference.
I would appreciate experiences on the Isoacoustics Orea or the Townshend Seismic Pod, or the comparison between the two products. The Oreas look better than the Pods to me although the latter may be costlier.
My components are currently placed on a good rack with Finite Elemente Cerabase footers at the bottom of the rack. I was wondering if individual isolators such as the Orea or Seismic Pod placed under components can further improve sound quality. I've read contradictory comments about the Orea. Some say they brought an appreciable difference when placed under components such as DAC or amplifiers. Some say they bring nothing to the sound, zero difference.
I would appreciate experiences on the Isoacoustics Orea or the Townshend Seismic Pod, or the comparison between the two products. The Oreas look better than the Pods to me although the latter may be costlier.
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@grannyring I jus don’t understand what it is the point of cutting these open. They do what they claim to do and need to do. Are they expensive, yes but they work. Are overpriced? I do not think so, if they were there would be many other options as good as these for less. The fact is that there aren’t, probably because any of the potential competitors had made their own business analysis and concluded that it was too much of a pain to compete. If you think different then, do the R&D, productize your device, build a supply and distribution chain and then sell them at whatever amount you think is fair to you. This is free market and anyone not making as much as they can on their product are not good business men/women. Nothing last forever. Next time, before you butcher a perfectly functioning product, please let me know before hand! If I am interested I pay you a fair price to get it out of your hands. How many did you buy and how many did you butcher? If you have some that you don’t want let me know the load rating and get them from you |
He probably didn’t cut anything open, the guy doesn’t even have a stereo, speakers, or anything. Just a keyboard he uses to type "hate" a thousand different ways. Takes lousy pictures too. The key to the whole thing is a tiny little vent hole drilled in the top. Can’t see it in his lousy photo, that shows the underside when it is the top that matters. The key to the design is the black rubber bellows captures air, and there is a very small vent hole in the top. So bouncing the spring forces air through the hole. The whole thing is designed to work like shock absorbers on a car, that allow the wheels to move a small amount for a smooth ride over bumps but damp out larger amplitude so the car doesn’t roll around curves as much. In practice then the Pod is a spring for micro-vibrations and damped for larger moves, resulting in it filtering by something like 16dB per octave above 4Hz. In other words a precision engineered product, as borne out in practice by everyone who tries them.
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