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Re: Bubble Wrap

Posted by pburke (A) on August 19, 2003 at 07:52:15

In Reply to: Re: Bubble Wrap posted by Postal Grunt on August 18, 2003 at 18:57:39:

my amps have vibrapods under them - stock, matched to the weight of each unit. Placing those directly on a 2.5" maple stand compared to placing an inner tube, a paving brick as platform and then the amps without vibrapods on the platform, the inner tube clealry outperforms the vibrapods, plus is considerably cheaper.

Now, the tube/paving brick (2x18x18 $1.89 at home depot) sure don't look great, but the sound beats the vibrapods in my setup. I tried the combination of all first, and that was a bit muddy in the mids, probably because of the "double spring" effect of inner tube and vibrapods.

Even $2 super balls worked better under my amps than the vibrapods. However, they are better than nothing. Placing the amp on the maple without any device in between was the worst of all versions I tried.

I'm now looking for suitable spoons to finally build roller bearings for the amps (need to be strong for the 120 pounds they'll be asked to balance). On my CD player, an inner tube and roller bearings above that haveshown the best results.

Peter

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