Best Isolation HRS? SRA? Zoethecus? Symposium?


I'm using a non audiophile rack for my system because it goes with the decor. Will an isolation device still make a difference. If so which one please?
jjwa
Has anyone here tried these Magnetic Levitators from GR-Research http://www.gr-research.com/levitator.htm
Guidocorona - seismic vibrations are the energetic waves that travel along the surface of the Earth that are produced by movement of the Earth's crust, especially along fault lines -- not only earthquakes, but less intense, continuous motion ("microseismic" activity). These seismic waves have transverse, perpendicular and rotational components (forces) capable of travelling long distances with great rapidity.

The seismic wave acts on a building much like a wave on the ocean passing under a boat -- when the wave passes under it, it forces the boat to move up and down, also pushes the boat forward and back and rocks it to and fro.

For convenience, we often include under the heading "seismic vibration" other sources of low-frequency vibration: automobiles, trucks and buses; trains and subways; the effect if tides around coastal areas, the effect of wind on high rise buildings (sway), even low frequency vibration produced by large applicances in the building -- large fans, A/C, etc.
Considering that seismic vibrations have long wavelength, several kilometers (they can reach hundreds of kilometers), two adjacent points, like the feet of the rack, vibrate with coherently (with the same phase). The rack only suffers from a vertical displacement movement, the wave never gets inside of the rack in order to excite it's modes of vibration. The amplitude of these waves are so small, we are not talking about a earthquake, that are neglectable for a audio rack. The problems involving the interaction of a seismic wave and a rack are several orders of magnitude smaller than the traffic induced noise or children playing through home. I dont see how this is the biggest problem to deal with. Please explain.

One can control the ressonance frequency trough mass, stiffnes or damping. You manage this low ressonant frequancy, only by using springs?
Low ressonant frequency is not the only usefull parameter, what is the settling time of your rack?
Energy spectrum is also usefull.

You seem to use a pendulum system that I have allready seen in some very tall building projects, to minimize oscilations cause by enviromental phenomena, such as wind driving forces. I've also seen it in a prroject to isolate an interforemeter in a gravitacional wave experiment facility.

IMHO, I think that a rack should adress other more important issues, like struture borne sound (generated inside and outside of the rack) or air borne sound, than seismic wave problems.
Geoffkait, I just read this thread, and frankly am not sure if I should laugh, cry or yell. What is your program??? Machina dynamica Brilliant Pebbles - $258.00, Machina dynamica Clever Lil Clock - $199.00. Are you seriously expecting anyone to believe in the Machina dynamica Nimbus isolation table - $800.00. It is people like you who sell %$#@ for inflated prices that have made the legitimate science based products fall into scrutiny. Beyond that, you have the gall to post on a thread like this to promote yourself. I assume your stomach rubs on the ground as you walk, for I can not think of a lower form of life. I am happy to see no one has fallen for your current auctions, perhaps after a year or so you will crawl back into your hole.

Now I understand you are just following the lead of Sksos, that is another story all together. Luckily I have not followed either of your "scientific" solutions...

jd