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In Reply to: RE: Ping: Duster posted by throwback on May 27, 2015 at 11:34:19
That photo was found on the web for use as an example of laminated bamboo for audiophile applications.
Here's a link to a product that might be suitable for your project:
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Is one preferable to the other or does it depend on the application?
I want to try something other than the sand filled shelves on my steel filled with sand rack. Other options would be granite or acrylic. Which option should I try first?
Thank you.
The most popular maple boards seem to be much too thick, in my opinion. Perhaps the use of enormous brass cones placed on top of a very thick maple board, positioned under a component counteracts what I've perceived as constricted sounding dynamics; a simply too unlively sounding sonic signature. A thick Boos Block maple board was moved from my audio rack, and onto my listening room floor to be used as a spiked base for a thinner, more lively sounding Lyptus board, the two boards separated by a set of four Herbie's Audio Lab Big Fat Dots. Within this type of function, the thick maple board serves well as a base for a subwoofer power amplifier stand, with a lively sounding bottom end provided by the thinner Lyptus board. A set of four Herbie's Audio Lab Iso-Cup with SuperSonic Hardball footers are positioned directly under the subwoofer power amplifier, placed on top of the Lyptus board.
My experience with a number of laminated bamboo boards shows that the material does not need to be very thick in order to provide sonic benefits when firm yet mildly compliant Herbie's Audio Lab dBNeutralizer pads are placed under a bamboo board, with other footers placed under a component that's positioned upon a bamboo board. An even better sounding option than a dBNeutralizer pad is to use a set of four 10mm thick carbon fiber composite discs with a Herbie's Audio Lab Thin grungebuster Dot affixed both under and on top of each carbon fiber composite disc. The sonic signature of a bamboo board tends to be very neutral to my ear when suitable pads/footers are also implemented within a configuration. Otherwise, the tonality of a bamboo board can sound a bit lean to very lean without proper attention to other vibration control devices used within the configuration. YMMV
I'll take using some Herbies dBNeutralizer sheets even a bit further &
putting it directly on the bottom of an equipment chasis underneath where
a transformer is sitting inside.
I used 2 rings I'd cut from the sheet directly inside my HD800 headphones !
(The "Ring Radiator" that Sennheiser used inside these phones (to make them a Universal HP; at the cost of accurate acoustic reproduction)is long
gone. I forgot to thank Herbies for how great this has worked for me !)
You are always very generous with your knowledge and experience.
+1 on that.
~D
Wherever you go there you are.
Another good source of Bamboo Boards... :)
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