Tweaker's Asylum

Posted by Bosh (A) on March 18, 2003 at 15:38:22

In Reply to: Isolation/Dampening: Which component first? posted by Howie on March 18, 2003 at 01:22:20:

For your amp (assuming it sits on the floor): Go to your local stone/marble supplier and get a nice, thick slab of FLAT AS POSSIBLE paving stone cut to your specs. It should cost well under 20 bucks. Under that put three supports, depending on floor surface (points for carpet, rubber furniture "glides" are fine for wood or other hard flooring).

For everything else, make Vibrapod "sandwiches" out of 1/2" MDF--often available as scrap, FREE, from your local lumber yard. Place one sheet of MDF on the bottom, supported in a triangle shape (one in front, two in back) by the correct 'pod for the weight. Now place three more pods on top of that, reversing the triangle, and place the second slab of MDF atop those. Now put your component on top of that and you're done.

You can also look into Mapleshade "Conepoints". Two of my most sensitive components (amp and phono stage) rest on above "sandwich" arrangements, while MS Conepoints replace the stock feet that sit upon those.

All of this is cheap...and like I said, a trip to the stone and lumber yards in your area will probably yield freebies...and it pays off.

Good luck

~~b