Isolation Feet for Laptop


It seems fairly common knowledge that vibration is a form of distortion in many electric components, not just for turntables and speakers. Isolation feet seem to work well in most applications.

I searched around and I didn't find any information to suggest that folks are using isolation feet on laptops or desktops, despite increased streaming usage. In a great many cases, there are indeed heavy vibrations coming from within the computer.  Whether it is the fan for the CPU or even GPU to the all the various chips/transformers, etc or even power supplies and batteries. If adding isolation feet to a streamer, DAC or power supply makes sense, then wouldn't it also make sense to apply isolation feet to your laptop; if you use it for music?

Well, I am going to find out. :)

I ordered some IsoAcoustics Orea Series Audio Equipment Isolators with a max weight of 16 pounds. The laptop weighs about 6.7 pounds, so it shouldn't be that much strain, even with all the cables creating some measure of down force as they dangle over the edge.

My expectation is that the DAC will be able to perform slightly better due to reduced vibration across the USB port and power filter. The DAC is a USB stick (Dragonfly Cobalt) so it has a very rigid hard connection to the laptop; so vibration is very easily transferred.

Has anyone else tried this?

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I would buy the most expensive isolation devices for a $600-700 laptop that has too many compromises on its own.  If you want to throw money around, PayPal it to me.  I could use it

@stereo5 

My laptop costs a total of $2400 after I added hard drives and more RAM. 

I am sorry you couldn't have been of more help.

@ozzy62 

Maybe for you.  I don't see any bylaw that says I have to accept sarcasm and belittlement for asking questions, even if I don't like the answers.

@fuzztone 

I am happy for you and your setup.  Not every situation is ideal. This is the limitation being presented on this setup.

I am certain you'll be the first in here to berate me if I dare to suggest I heard a difference adding the isolation feet, right? ;)

@tomic601 

Alright, I am looking into that now.  Seems reasonable.  The Basik, which is what I could afford, doesn't perform any mechanical vibration isolation, but perhaps adding these isolation feet to the Tranquility pad would help.