Halcyonics under my tt. Wow


I just put my third, too expensive but wonderful, Halcyonic active isolation base under my Shindo Labs tt and am just overwhelmed by what I am hearing. I doubt if I will sleep tonight having 50 LPs that I "must" hear.

The ambient detail and realism is just shocking.

It is one of the great tragedies of audio that this device cannot be made somewhere for under $2000; I think they would sell hundreds. I know I would have one for every componnent. Mine was used.
tbg
Yes, the Micros series is self-leveling as was the Model One.

I emailed Herzan also. Maybe I will need to send an email from the University.
I did get an answer to some of my questions from Herzan. Apparently, the Stable Table people and those at Halcyonic once worked together. The focus of Herzan has become improving sensors and communications to correction focusing on corrections in the 10-100Hz region.

TS-300LT costs $10,200 but is comparable to the Micro 80, so it is a very large unit. I would love to be able to compare the two in several applications.
I tried The Silencer under my ARC CD-7 CDP, ARC Ref-3 pre and ARC Ref 110 amp. When I put my pre and power amp on the Silencer, the changes were minimal. A bit like changing the tube dampers. There were there, and were positive, but they not warranted extra $11.500 IMO.

CDP was a different story. Here the changes were very substantial, in terms or removing grain, improving stage depth, resolution, HF-air and decays. It is like the noise leven in the system had dropped -20dB. Here it actually represents a reasonable value. Not good, but reasonable. I think that If I had a spare $11500 burning my pocket (which I do not have right now - the unit was on dealer loan) I would keep it. Oh well - maybe one day !

Thank you Tbg for bringing my attention to this innovative product.

PS. I borrowed The Silencer to a friend who owns VPI Aries 3 turn table. I will report back on his findings as well.
Elberoth2, I have yet to get back to Herzan as I have reason to believe they think I am running a lab as I used to be a professor.

I do have an experience yesterday that might interest you. I was putting new IsoClean fuses into my H-Cat amp. The amp is on one of my Micro40s. It keeps trying to relevel itself if you are twisting fuse holders, so I turned it off.

I installed the IsoCleans and turned the amp on for a listen. The sound was not as good as it had been, causing me to think maybe the fuses needed breakin. After about an hour and still little improvement, I was disappointed. Suddenly I remembered that I had not turned the Halcyonics back on. When i did and returned to my seat, the sound was spectacular. The fuses added a lot but the Halcyonics added more.

I would urge you at some point to try the amp again. Clement Perry of Soundstage strongly urged me to do this. This all means, of course, that you too will be on the slippery slope to needing more Halcyonics or Herzans.