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In Reply to: RE: Best alternative to Stillpoints? posted by gme109 on May 08, 2012 at 17:27:34
It started out as ...I wonder if this will work... and now I have them all over the place. After reading about the stillpoints and ceramic balls I priced some ceramic balls and they are expensive. So I tried some marbles (amorphous non crystaline ... like ceramic) and placed them in prescription bottle caps. At first I placed them in layers like the stillpoints but quickly discovered that even if not layered and not tight within the cap they worked (stable but enough lateral compliance to act as a bit of isolation) and they sounded good. They sounded good enough that I displaced some generation 1 aurios so I put them all over the place...under components, power supplies etc and I moved the system to a new sonic level. Give it a try.BTW if anybody knows a good inexpensive source of ceramic balls please let me know. I know ceramics will be better.
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Interesting and easy enough to try, thanks.Just found some ceramic balls for cheap.
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Thanks for the link but $2 + per ball is imo is not cheap. Maybe its as cheap as it gets but I could use 3 dozen or so, so that is $75 or so.
Since the marbles work so well, you shouldn't pay that much unless you have lost your marbles.
Dave
well you know always looking ahead for more
You will not find ceramic balls cheaper than that. 75 bucks seems like a bargain for 3 dozen. On the other hand 5/32 inch ceramic balls are tiny.
Maybe so but yes 5/32 " is small. Since marbles work well size wise I would prefer a half inch minimum.
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