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RE: Honestly, Stu...

RW said, "A well-recorded/mastered 24 bit, 96 KHz recording is all that is needed to recreate the original sonic event. Fiddling about with cork vs. rubber footers under your amp (or some such other Tom-foolery) is a waste of time and effort."

RW also said, "I realize that many will disagree with me, and may God bless them. But I stand by my pronouncements and have yet to have anyone prove me wrong on my major points..."

RW, I disagree with you, but only because you're wrong. And I can prove you're wrong on perhaps all of your major points.

Moreover, there is not one shred of evidence that a well-engineered high-res recording is night and day difference over a well-engineered Redbook format recording. Which is the type of difference required for your hi-rez statement to be true.

As for your statement of fiddling with cork vs rubber footers being tomfoolery, well, I can demonstrate you are equally wrong there as well. To be fair, cork and rubber both fall into the "vibration isolation" methodology camp and since it's against the laws of physics to isolate anything from all sources of vibration simultaneously, that is indeed tomfoolery.

However, somebody dabbling with vibration controlling methodologies and executions has to start somewhere and it only makes sense to start there since that is where the vast majority are and where product is readily available and where the masses have settled on for their solutions.

I will not speak favorably for cork, rubber, or kitty litter, nor will I ever use the term "vibration isolation" in a positive light. But I can say and prove that the lack of proper vibration control induces more distortion than perhaps all other forms of distortion combined (impossible to prove on paper) and has induced the greatest performance-limiting governor on every last playback system. Proper being the key word here.

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