Preamp Deal of the Century

Dampening Larry is not a good thing but a bad thing! Dampening is but a tourniquet only there to impede the natural flow. The natural flow may be from a good design or a poor design but impede the dampening does. Let us hear from the outset the good and the bad, unimpeded from all the sluuuuuring of lead and slow blurrrr and dulling effects of rubber and their sister products! If a cello with its attached end pin were to be placed upon a leaden rubber base and the cello strings were plucked would you not dampen and alter the natural dynamics of this beautiful instrument? There are much better materials for EMI and RFI shielding and efficient resonant energy transfer than that slow sleepy leaden train. Tom

I got a platform from Larry 15 years ago. Countless components have come and gone in that time but I won't let go of my platform. Every year or so I decide I don't really need this thing and take it out from under my cd transport. When I do, the images shrink. The music is not as open or dynamic. Needless to szay it goes right back in the system. I think it sounds more musical and is better in every way. Unfortunately I only have one so I can't multiply the benefits by using one on the amp or pre-amp. You don't need to be an audio pig to hear the huge difference this thing makes. I'm not at all technical so I can't really speak to how or why it works but it does. If Larry ever finds a couple in his basement, I'd buy the damn things right now!!

I know of one you can come and get..Tom

Tom - I certainly understand where you are coming from so far as deadening the sound of a musical instrument is concerned but a pre-amp or tt or amplifier isn't a musical instrument but a component to transfer the signal unadulterated. How can something that minimizes or removes vibrations affect the dynamics of the signal? I would think that a "livelier" foundation might exaggerate dynamics yet also possibly add smearing. Why is damping unwanted vibrations from outside influences a bad thing?

Amen Tubegroover. You get it Audiotweak does not. The laws of physics simply deny his answer, and are not in dispute.
Of couse these are replicating divices, not the actual intruments, who, as a thinking person could confuse the two?
Output should equal input. Speakers, being an electro/mechanical device, have problems with this, and cabinets are designed to "dampen out" their excesses, the same way the Platform dampens out excess brought in through the room interaction.
Tom can easily recoup his loss by selling his to 84. He is so unhappy with them the price has to be good for the buyer.
My guess is that he won't sell.
Good listening,
Larry