Stillpoints and reference-level speakers

Bol,
With you guys discussing polishing Stillpoints, maybe you should consider plating the brass in chrome. I think that your attitude is ridiculous in this respect.
You claim to be a perfectionist, and you are a sound consultant, but in the end, your priority is in the looks.
Maybe you should be called "The Audio Jeweler".

Bo1972, you can always spray paint the Audio Points black. And ruin the sound, but hey if looks are most important to you, that shouldn't matter.

Roxy54, the brass surface on the Audio Points is very important.

Bo the Audio Consultant? Hardly! Maybe interior decorator is more appropriate.

There are some wild looking amps and speakers out there but with so much competition in these areas, it's easy to find one of great sound and acceptable looks. And such products can make quite a physical presence in the room. But with few standout isolation products, dismissing a top notch performer because of cone color is ridiculous at best.

There is so much marketing hokum surrounding footers and their costs can be so great that it is absurd for any audiophile worth his moniker to make a cut based only on aesthetics. On trousers maybe, though in custom tailoring whether ones "dresses" to the left or the right can be paramount!

In my system I have a mix of Ultra 5, SS, Starsound SP-1, and now Starsound Apprentice. These all work well and are largely invisible. Where I have directly compared the two technologies-- under CDP and just now under Pass XA-160.8 monoblocks-- the Star Sound platforms worked better. Where rugs are involved or where leveling is required(i.e. turntable), Stillpoints with their adjustable bases work particularly well. However, even Stillpoints are improved after removing the rug. This is curious, as I understand that Stillpoints devices are conceived to be inherently decoupling.