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Hi.

Enroute my business trip back home a few years back, I stopped over Vancouver, Canada & dropped in the largest audo boutique intown there.

I was lead into the hi-end sound studio there, & was astounded to see
a huge granite block, weighing several tons, lying across the front wall of the studio, where a few high end stuff were placed for demo.

Expensive stuffs, included full range of ASR Audiosysteme from Germany. The Germany Hi End award winner: outboard battery powered Emitter II, probably the most expensive intergrated SS amp in the world, built in a see-through acrylic housing (!!), was demoed to me.

The owner of the boutique told me he personally favoured using heavy mass like large granite stones as equipment support, as he found it sounded much better.

Stone cladded wall & floor is a totally different thing from audio support.

Even stucco finished wood or monsary walls & ceilings, a pretty popular home decor finishing, ring like hell as I've gone through so many auditions in homes with such hard pastered finishing.

Ground or earthcrust movements involved enormous kinetic energies outscaling the minute acoutic vibrtion for home audio. Total different ballgame, bud.

c-J


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