Tweakers' Asylum

Posted by Japesgalore (A) on March 25, 2008 at 12:36:16

In Reply to: RE: What make yu think hardwood can "dampen the granite further" ??? (nt) posted by cheap-Jack on March 25, 2008 at 11:49:38

My thinking is far from being based in hard science, I'm just being creative. I've read in a few places that wood is more likely to absorb vibrations, as opposed to stone, which either transmits or stores for later release, eghem. I know these are the dark arts of audio stuning and I've only just begun looking into it.

If the wood is in contact with the granite, through a specific medium, there is bound to be some interplay between the resonances. Perhaps they'll help to cancel each other out, or maybe they'll heighten them. I suppose a lot depends on the intermediary substance. Should it be hard, enabling maximum coupling so as to let the wood do most of the work, or soft so as to lend to the dampening. The other question was whether to have the wood and and the material in between as part of the chain, or just part of the granite.

I've experimented with a combination of materials between the granite and its wooden support but everything I tried didnt compare to the RCI feet on their own. Most of those materials were soft, ie silicon, blue-tak, and cork, which leads me to think that using silicon between the wood and granite might not be the best move. And to that, I think the Isonodes are quite soft so I'm not too sure about them either. Then again, all sorts of factors are coming into play here so it would be hard to draw any hard and fast rules until I've experimented. Problem is I dont have an unlimited supply of money and supplies, not to mention time, and patience, so I'm hoping that someone out there can throw some informed opinion into this.

Cheers