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RE: Can Passive Dedicated Line Conditioners Benefit Sonically from Proper Vibration Mgmt?

Posted by stehno (M) on October 31, 2014 at 22:46:52

In Reply to: RE: Can Passive Dedicated Line Conditioners Benefit Sonically from Proper Vibration Mgmt? posted by Dryginger2 on October 31, 2014 at 20:20:11:

No and I don't understand where the performance gains could stem from. That is since much of the entire chassis is already made up of steel or aluminum.

My first inclination is to believe that if there were any gains, perhaps when you installed the new screws and tightened them down you were making the component more rigid than previously.

I say this is a possibility because quality control is a real issue with some mfg'ers when they assemble their products. I do only two things to a product when I receive it and before it goes into my rack. 1) I open the top and bottom (if possible) plates to tightend down every last screw I can find inside to ensure tight coupling everywhere. 2) I install a cryo-treated fuse.

I've opened up component tops where the pcb boards were literally teeting on their mounting posts, the screws were so loose. In another with similar issues, there was even a loose screw floating on the bottom and I never did find out where it belonged.

Some mfg'ers are quite good at quality control. Of my last round of components received, every screw had already been torqued down to a very tight level and I could barely tighten the screws any more.

This may be naive of me (I have no formal engineering background) but I simply look upon EMI as another effect or derivative of undercontrolled vibrations by the distortions they induce. Ultimately, I don't know but with the levels of performance I've been able to attain, I've had no desire nor felt the need to dril down into the specfic EMI rabbit hole.

Ultimately, I see every last high-end audio system as being built on a foundation and it is quality of that foundation that ultimately determines the performance of every system. A proper foundation consists of proper AC/electrical mgmt and especially proper vibraiton mgmt.

I emphasize proper to imply there is an improper foundation that consists of undercontrolled AC/electrical and especially undercontrolled vibration mgmt.

And just as a building structure's ultimate performance is determined by the foundation upon which it's built, so too with every last playback system.

An improper foundation automatically implies a very low performance-limiting governor while the proper foundation implies the performance-limiting governor has been lifted and the performance of every component soars far past the levels even the designer imagined.

Let me try this another way. Every last playback system requires 2 basic energies to even function at all i.e. AC and vibrations. Yet, when undercontrolled, these same 2 basic energies will utterly destroy every last component's peformance potential.

How's that?

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