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RE: Sporadic thoughts.

Don't be silly, Steve. Of course you're trying to defy the laws of physics. Everything about your terminology, your philosophies, executions, and products are all about decoupling and vibration isolation. And since the entire universal is made up of one form of vibration or another, it's simply an impossibility. But as you know, you're not alone as nearly everybody's trying to do likewise, including some really smart physicists.

To say there are many laws of physics at work here, well, to me that's a given and a cop out since there are many laws of physics at work as I type. But I think it worth noting:

1) It's human nature to overly complicate even the most simple problems. For example, if given the choice, who wants to be noted for improving the hula-hoop when they could be working on NASA's next space probe?

2) If I use the analogy of a lightning rod on top of a house being struck by lightning, there are many laws of physics at work there too. However, the only law of physics requiring our consideration at that moment in time is the one where destructive energy is or is not being redirected to ground before it can induce its catastrophic harm on the house.

You can overly complicate that analogy all you want (as high-end audio types appear wont to do), but that's all there is to it. Do you want to try to trap that unwanted energy at the lightning rod, create an escape hatch so that some energy can exit, or do you want to create a superior electrical conduit to hopefully redirect all of that energy elsewhere before it can induce its destructive harm?

Do you really think this lightning rod analogy is so different from a speaker or a sensitive component attracting unwanted energy? Isn't electrical energy just another form of the vibraiton family? Are you aware that wire vibrates when current is passing thru them?

We're obviously coming at this problem from diametrically opposed positions so I'll close and let you have the last word with this old analogy I used 10 years ago.

You're sitting in your car at a stoplight and some kid drives up behind you with his subwoofer pumping out the nastiest, most ill-defined rolling earthquake type of bass you've ever heard. You look in your rearview mirror but it's vibrating so violently you can't even tell if the kid is a boy or girl. You're stomach's churning and you're starting to think if you blew chunks, you might get some relief. So there you are, in your car which is resting on your air-filled radial all-season tires and you're experiencing one of the most physically nauseating moments of your adult life because of the kid's subwoofer.

From whence are these vibrations coming? The ground or the air? And why?



Edits: 01/26/15

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