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vibration control - cd player

Hi all-

I've got a new Hegel Viking cd player here which is quite nice.  At the moment, it's sitting inside an Ikea cabinet.  The feet have a sort of small isonodes rubber piece. Is that sufficient?  Do I eventually want to invest in something like a Harmonic Resolutions platform?  Or the little EVP squares?  Or something else?  (A real audio stand is not an option in my very small room.)

Thanks for any advice.

Margot

mcanaday
classicrockfan
88 posts
 

Trust the designer of the CD player and do not waste money to reduce vibration (in your brain). If you're that concerned ... find a rock or some weight and put it on the player

dill
2,443 posts
 

Poor advice ....

ghdprentice
6,390 posts
 

@dill 

+1

fleschler
1,920 posts
 

While I tried Stillpoints to rubber footers (half a dozen footers) under the Shanling ET3 Transport, it’s own solid rubberized footers worked best.

The Topping D70s DAC sounded superior with very small half round rubber footers.

I put nothing under my EAR 912 pre-amp either.

The EAR 890 amp receives the Synergistic Research MiG Sx footers, one up in front and two down in back, where there is solid metal (I adjusted the bottom plate so that the perforated sections were mostly in the middle).

I put nothing under my COS Engineering D1v DAC.  

The VPI TNT VI+ requires a Townshend Seismic SInk or something to eliminate vibrations from it’s poorly designed hard delrin feet. Yuck!

sokogear
1,053 posts
 

It depends on the weight of your CD player. If the Townshend seismic platform will work with the weight (they have like 4-5 different tensions for the podiums), I feel that is the best vibration control product out there, but you have to make sure you are isolated from footfalls, which it does not help, so if you have a suspended wood floor, you could experience them, although I suspect not nearly as bad as with a turntable. So as long as you are not walking near it, you should be OK. 

Symposium rollerblocks or a platform would be 2nd choice. If you call Peter, he will guide you. I don't have a cd player, but he told me the improvement with his products on a cd player is even greater than a turntable.

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