Sistrum and Maple

Chuck,

Long time no talk. Did you sell you wing here on Agon?

I actually tried this, I have a turntable shelf at the top of my Star Sound rack and I tried putting a Scoutmaster on a 3" maple board on Audio Points on top of the shelf but the table sounded better sitting directly on the shelf.

I talked to StarSounds when buying Audiopoints for a maple rack I was building. We chatted a bit about the Sistrum, and my impression was that they did not think wood a good approach to shelving. J

I myself am a Star Sound dealer and should have given a more complete explanation. The Star approach is to have the stand act as a CONDUCTOR for vibrations in order to drain them out of the system as quickly as possible. I find that this works very well. Maple acts as an ISOLATOR to seperate sections of the system from each other and PREVENT vibrations from being transferred. This can also work, I have the aforementioned maple block atop a VPI TNT stand where it works well. What does not work is the mixing of the two approaches as they are using opposing principals in dealing with the same problem.

Thanks Stan,

That was what my gut told me