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In Reply to: RE: Critical Mass Systems posted by 4everyoung on February 22, 2015 at 19:02:09
The web wire states:
"Critical Mass Systems racks are not isolation systems as they do not prevent the transmission of vibration. Rather, the filter system manages the flow of vibration into and out of the component as well as the rack architecture supporting it."
Filter system? That is precisely what a vibration isolation system is. It filters the (structural) vibration coming into the component. Anyone can dissipate the vibrations flowing out of the component, that's kind of low tech. I suspect they are mincing words to try to separate themselves from the pack.
Follow Ups:
I'm wondering if that's the same guy I dealt with a number of years ago when I wrote for TAS If so, he's a lunatic. He sent me one of his early amp platforms to try out. When I told him I had experimented with several different interfaces (machined aluminum & wood blocks) he starts yelling that he wants his platform back. wtf??? TAS said send it back. I don't recall what he used as an interface between amp and platform, but I thought I'd try a couple I had here to see how they compared. And now Harley gives his current amp stand a rave review? Don't they remember what happened? Makes me ill.
> "I'm wondering if that's the same guy I dealt with a number of years ago when I wrote for TAS. If so, he's a lunatic. And now Harley gives his current amp stand a rave review? Don't they remember what happened? Makes me ill."This seems irresponsible. Original poster stated above his derogatory opinion about Critical Mass Systems and their products and that he's getting "ill" solely as a "lunatic" he deal with years ago works at Critical Mass Systems--regardless that the original poster states he does not know if that "lunatic" works at Critical Mass Systems.
I hope it is not the case though it appears when he started this thread about Critical Mass Systems, the original poster had something against that company from the get go and later in the thread made up evidence to further his point.
To each their own, though I don't recall a legit reviewer ever using derogatory comments like lunatic to describe a designer.
Edits: 05/17/15
It's such a black art. It all depends on a whole lot of things. Even the best of these gadgets like Halcyonics and Minus K and Vibraplane are almost endlessly tweakable in terms of how to interface them to the floor and how to interface the component to the stand, etc. To my knowledge I'm the only one who got the resonant frequency down below 1 Hz with the exception of Minus K. Everyone else is sucking hind teat as it were.
Edits: 02/23/15
... just to keep "The Unholy Three" thing going.
Well, if that's the case, I get to be Lon Chaney, Sr. (as Professor Echo). I don't know which of you will play the midget, "Tweedledee", though.
You can duke-out that one through your respective 'agents'...... or draw straws.
(And what's all this nonsense about $6000 amp stands, anyway? You'd think this was an audio site, or something.....)
;-)
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.........my VERY old and fucked up computer does not allow me such extravagances as watching most videos. Bummer. Only saw "Blues Brothers" once years ago, but remember that I laughed my ass off at the scene where Sister Mary Stigmata literally rolls in (and out) ala that witch/vampire/wtf in the movie "Black Sabbath" (starring Boris Karloff and a bunch of Italian people. Saw it as a kid, when it first came out a zillion years ago, so my memory could be off a wee bit there.)
Yeah, there are lots of unholy trios out there......
Hey, that could be a fun thread in Central Asylum.
(Then again, maybe not.) ;-)
The clip is one of my favorites of the Blues Brothers movie where Sister Mary takes a ruler to Jake and Elwood. That would be me, Sister Nary. Fifty shades of Sister Mary.
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