Walker Valid Points or Mapleshade Footers for preamp?


Hello,
I am looking for place some brass cones under a tube preamp. Is one product better then another for this purposes or does this matter more equipment with more moving parts?
autodexr
Thanks for the link Hotbird. Nice to see you here. ;)

Glory
I would suggest that you try to listen to the MSF and WVP on a solid wood support(they were designed this way) - preferably as heavy as you can find. The effect is very different if you hear it on the Solidtech stuff.

FYI, I had 2 sets of Feet of Silence, but got rid of them after trying the Nordost Ti Pulsar points, and later WVP/MSF. The later are clearly superior to the Solidtech stuff especially if your system has deep bass.
Cmk,

I tossed the FOS also. Trash.

I had the MSF on a MS 4" maple plateform. Sold it all.

JUNK. Toss it. Get rid of it.

Buy a HRS M3.
Over the weekend, a friend also tried out the Mapleshade brass footers under his equipment, and his comment was "Good thing is brass gives dynamism but seems to have no ringing and high frequency issues."

He was using ceramic footers on a composite material which I passed to him. The ceramic/composite mix "seems more [to give] more stark imaging."

He felt both produced life-like sound.

If given such a senario, which would you go for? Better dynamics or imaging?

I have tried over the last few years, Stillpoints cones, Finite Elemente Ceraball (original), Finite Elemente Cerapuc, Cardas blocks, EquaRack MF-1 footers and HRS M3 platform.

I posted my impressions on these devices in this post:

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?ddgtl&1194432236&openusid&zzIsanchez&4&5#Isanchez

All the isolation devices I've tried work well. Some better than others. So in my experience, each one of these footers or platform is an upgrade from the stock feet that came with the audio equipment.

From the isolation devices I've tried, the HRS M3 and EquaRack MF-1 footers are much more efficient at controlling vibrations and resonances than the other ones I have.

I currently have all my audio equipment on a credenza. I have the HRS M3 sitting on it supporting my turntable. I can play a silent track on the turntable and knock hard on the top of the credenza and I hear nothing on the speakers. That's how good the M3 is.

I conducted a similar experiment with solo violin music playing on my CD player. This time with the EquaRack footers. Again, I heard nothing being transfered to the audio signal.

I currently have EquaRack footers under all my equipment, except for the turntable. With these footers, everything is tighten up and I hear more of those micro details that tend to get lost in reproduced music.

I still have footers from Stillpoints and Finite Elemente. And I still use them from time to time, but just as a reminder of how good the EquaRack footers are by comparison. I also keep using the Cardas blocks: to set up the VTA of my tonearm.

I hope this helps.

Best Regards,

iSanchez