Walker Valid Points or Mapleshade Footers for preamp?

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

I recently tried three Acoustic Revive RIO-5010 clear quartz disks under my H-Cat line stage. I must add that it already was on a level 5 Mana stand with an Acapella isolation base using the special pucks between the unit and the isolation base.

Simply inserting the RIOs between the pucks and the unit resulted in such a positive change that I was shaken in my commitment to the Halcyonics base, but then again I have only been able to afford two of these and my line stage isn't lucky enough to be on one. I really don't want to hear what it would sound like on a Halcyonic base.

These quartz gizmos are just unbelievable. The dynamic jumped and the precision of the sound stage was just scary.

I don't know what they would do under other units or between my amp and the Halcyonics. In the last case just because I don't want to know.

Honestly, I don't know why these have such benefit. I have found some instances in which the RIO-5010s do little or nothing and really hate trying them everywhere if it is more than just placing them on top of components.