Stillpoints and reference-level speakers

I look forward to Agear's inevitable purchase of the Backstage platforms and how they improve upon the Apprentice's high standards that we've established here. Agear don't keep us waiting too long.

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Agear,
Your SOTA mechanically grounded listening room demands that the Backstage find a permanent home there.

Lord have mercy. Well, if you really want to push towards the lunatic fringe as I am prone to, the Starsound Stage platforms are the obvious answer. They are an ALL BRASS version of the backstage. Due to inflationary pressure on raw materials such as brass, they will be $$$$. My wife would truly be filled with homicidal rage at that juncture. I can hear her now: "Brass stands? Really?"

Well, I am glad for Robert, Tom and the Starsound collective for the resurrection of their company and technology. The Apprentice stands are a very modest investment for the performance you get. The audio press is finally starting to take notice:

http://www.stereotimes.com/post/sistrum-apprentice-series-spsa103-platform/

The audio press has been very enamored with the Stillpoint products. It will be interesting to see how they find the different engineering approach of Star Sound products. Time will tell.
Charles,

I feel like I need to tell you gentleman here, A long time ago, To me, The most profound resonance control went out of bussiness from the lack of keeping up with demand of sales, so bruce badlack of polycrystal closed down!, I lucked up, found some footers for speakers, I owned thousands of dollars of this stuff back in the day of the late 90s, I will never use my still points again, as of the good ole days, Polycrystal is the shxxx!, Rare to find any, as a matter of fact, Bruce used my invention, the disablocks, for top tunning of componets, they sold quite well, so if anybody has polycrystal products, I will give you double than what you paid new for them!

Audiolabyrinth, I have several boxes of the Polycrystal cones that I would just give you were the two of us in Texas right now. But I will not be back there until October. Frankly I hated them as I did the carbon fibre cones.

Agear, I was unaware of the all brass version of the Star Sound Backstage. Thanks for the head up.

Charles1dad, the Stillpoints Ultra series and their racks, in my opinion, are not displaced by the Star Sound platforms. Platforms cannot replace feet in all circumstances. The two technologies have different characteristics also.

At one point I was totally shocked at how superior the Stillpoint's technology for absorbing vertical vibration were to the nearly countless points and feet of virtually every material and springs of many styles I now have in boxes. I fully understand how this technology works.

More recently I have experienced the Star Sound Technology Apprentices, which I know rest on a completely different thought, namely get the vibrations quickly as possible to ground.

What you hear with these two devices is quite different and a hard choice. One is quick and dynamic, especially evident on brass instruments and drums. The other gives a sound stage that is very defined and real.

Presently I use a mix as small devices do not work on the about 10 by 14 inch platforms and the Star Sound platforms are, as yet, not released.