Vibration Control


Why do solid state audio electronics with no moving parts need or benefit from vibration control? 
 

It makes perfect sense that turntables, CD transports, R2R tape decks, loudspeakers & tubed electronics (w/ potentially micro phonic tubes) might all benefit from various methods of vibration control or mitigation but I don’t see why anything else would. Any thoughts??

jonwolfpell

As with so much in high end audio & often life, there’s so many differing opinions & Often no definitive science as to why.  Added to this, we all hear & perceive things differently & have different tastes. This is sort of similar to solid state amps generally measuring better than tubed ones but often don’t sound as good. Thanks everyone for all your responses. Fun stuff!

Analogj why would you say ignorance. I would suggest that if you tried things on your system that you don’t know why that’s Ignorance.

there is a engineering rational for the reasons which were mentioned. So what’s the  premise that your cD transport would benefit from vibration isolation.

OP.. it is beneficial in this hifi game to try and listen instead of trying to “understand “ you only dig yourself a deep hole trying to “prove” or “understand” many things in this world esp music and hifi…The first time I saw The Dead I dropped acid and listened….. Trying to understand the experience would have been pointless to me…

In General solid state circuits are not effected by acoustic vibration. The exception is in cheeper ceramic capacitors they can be effected by hi frequency vibration and the dielectric layers separate. 

One of the highest vibration environments would be inside a speaker cabinet putting out high SPL even stronger mechanical vibrations don't effect SQ or reliability of modern (within about 5 years) powered speakers.