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Beginning about 40 years ago I started DIY isolation tweaks.

Posted by Norm (R) on August 16, 2007 at 10:03:45

In Reply to: I think you miss my point. (long) posted by cheap-Jack on August 16, 2007 at 08:02:46:

I tried marble on racquetballs with and without slits. I tried granite the floor and on sand boxes. I tried commercial ac isolation pads. I made my own pads. I tried Sims isolation pucks. I tried multi-layer platforms from VPI including one I had made for my 200 pound Final Audio, solid copper tt. I tried Townsend, Vibraplane, and various other isolation bases, including a very special isolation platform from Goldmund under my Goldmund cd player. I tried steel points, aluminum points, tungsten carbide points, brass points, delgrin points. I tried maple bases, oak bases, granite bases, butcher block bases, the Nuaance bases, etc.

Many of these one could not duplicate DIY. Many you could. With one exception that I know of, you are merely choosing among resonant frequencies the benefits are quite component specific. I think that some will prefer high resonant frequency isolation devices and others low frequency devices. Some will limit themselves to DIY and others not.

All that I would advise is that there is no one best device.

The only device that I know of that has no resonant frequency is the very expensive Halcyonic active isolation device. I cannot afford more than the two I have, but I would never consider selling either.

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