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I'm sure those are meant to be a joke.
http://www.nathanmarciniak.com/elemental/
I'm sure those are meant to be a joke.
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Heck, it's better than blowing your money on useless hi-fi placebos, and it goes to a good cause.
Heck, it's better than blowing your money on useless hi-fi placebos, and it goes to a good cause.
Did Nathan Marciniak made a blind test both before making such a statement? ;-)
A manufacturer of anti vibration devise once told me: As long as manufacturer will keep on having their product on cheap bow’s I will continue to make a living on vibration attenuation devise.
Those things have a place in a system after all.
Many of my components sit on a $18 pine rack I bought from Home Depot in the nineties. Others sit on folding shelves I got from Cost Plus for 20 bucks.
I do use rollerballs, aurios footers, wine corks and other vibe devices under vulnerable tube components.
I can easily afford the upscale furniture, but frankly, I just can't see it. If I thought I heard a difference there, I would count myself cuckoo.
I am thinking about getting an additional vibraplane device to put under my turntable, but I would want to try it out first before committing, SME 30 already has a rather robust vibration attenuation and re-assignment system.
One could probably mount a solid state power amp on top of a subwoofer and not notice a difference if you were doing a blind test.
I'm not buying into most of these tweaks.
One could probably mount a solid state power amp on top of a subwoofer and not notice a difference if you were doing a blind test.
I'm not buying into most of these tweaks.
I've come to consider equipment supports as components and not just tweaks or furniture. That kind of thing happens when you get the opportunity to swap out entire sets of supports in stages or in one go. Depends on the amps IME. My 3 and 4 series MLs could be put on anything and I couldn't tell the difference.
IMHO. In terms of mechanical vibration, a particular component (might) be sensitive to external vibrational energy, or it's own internal vibrational energy such as from transformers. It's either it's sensitive to that to some degree, or it's not. If sensitive to internal vibration, then damping and coupling to a vibrational energy sink can help. If sensitive to external vibrational energy, then decoupling can help. I believe you can't make a blanket statement about all components. The typical rubber feet that are found on most components do almost nothing to help with coupling or decoupling a component. These are, of course, my opinions and based solely on my own experimentation with above mentioned methods.
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