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In Reply to: Component supports posted by Davet on June 28, 2001 at 11:59:47:
Anything you put your gear on (and anything you put on your gear) will change the sound.Some changes are improvements; some are not. My experience has been that cones and spikes are coupling devices. (Any reference to “isolation cones†or “isolation spikes†always makes me grin.) Soft, rubbery pucks, despite appearances, will also act as coupling devices (at low frequencies).
Air bladders and roller bearings are isolation devices. Air bladders work primarily on vertical vibrations and roller bearings on horizontal vibrations. (Vertically, roller bearings work as couplers.)
Not long ago, I experienced what seismic isolation would do for the sound of my system. For me, there is no going back. Everything is better: the sides and rear corners of the soundstage are much better illuminated, complex musical lines are much easier to “separate†(i.e. listening to one particular voice in a large group of voices is much easier, as in real life), “big†musical moments hold together much better (what I once thought was incipient clipping of my amp turned out to just be congestion), it just sounds more like real Music (and less like a record).
In sum, I’d say that coupling devices allow you to play with the “color†of your system, as if they were mechanical tone controls, while seismic isolation devices allow you to hear what your components can do.
Happy Listening.
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- Re: Component supports - bdiament 08:17:07 06/29/01 (0)