looking for best isolation platform for CD player

I would say this, anything that Tom is this excited about, must be good. He is a golden ear from way back. Not the most subtle guy, heh heh, but fabulous ears, and a great listener.
There I said it, and its true.
Hey nrchy, you and Tom kiss and make up, no matter who started it,. Life's too short. This is AUDIO, our favorite thing, and supposed to be fun. We are lucky to have audio, instead of food, to worry about.
IMHO.
Larry

Larry, you're right about that. There are a lot of people who have real problems to worry about, this is just supposed to be an interesting diversion.

Tom, you may be right about everything you said, I'm just not sure yet.

What is going on here (Larry/Nrchy)? Tom has been a one note positive poster in regard to his:

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Jeez, amazed that it took you this long to be amazed.

Yea, I'm punctual and consistently persistent. Here's a for instance... We forgot to ask Proy if he has received his Sistrum Sp1 yet and how he likes it..Maybe his description will incite another RIOT!! As that man Warren always signs , Peace Tom..

I'm an analog guy, so I can't say from experience what will be best under your particular CD player.

However, I can say from experience that the best things I've heard under any other piece of audio gear are the Sistrum platforms and Audiopoints.

I'm also a firm believer in coupling and not isolation. I have been so for many years, and only recently(about a year ago) found out how good the Sistrum stuff is at achieving what I wanted to achieve.

I'm not going to fan any flames about what can and cannot work, but I will repeat that I am firmly in the "coupling" camp. I use the Sistrum stuff from one end of my system to the other. It is doing what I want it to do. As most of you know, I am very hard-core, and if it didn't work extremely well, it wouldn't be in my system.

Many times it is hard to break from a trend that has been generally accepted for years. Sometimes "doing a 180" from what you have been trying for years can pay off. This is one of those times.

A good question to ask yourselves is, "If isolation is so important, then how can this form of direct coupling with zero isolation provide such good results?" Perhaps you may conclude that there are 2 ways to control vibration in the system. In any matter of choice, there is always a winner. Do not discount the idea that this well-engineered application of direct coupling could be the winner. In my application it clearly was the winner, and I suspect it would be in many other applications also.

IMO.

Peace.