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RE: Of course you haven't heard it...

"Interesting that you think performance gains are unatainable unless specs and measurements are produced. Or that the lack of specs and measurements negate a thing. "

I didn't say either of those things. You're over-reacting and jumping to an unfounded conclusion, in response to a reasonable statement of fact.

Here is exactly what I wrote:

"I've read much of what's on John Stehno's Dynamic Contrasts website. It contains no audio specs for the products nor any actual measurements, that I can find. But, from all the verbosity it contains, the word "hyperbole" comes to mind."

How you got from there to your response is quite a leap.

My post was in reply to mkuller's post, where he wrote:

"I tried to get into your vintage website to see what you make, since I haven't heard of your company, but I wasn't able to."

So, I thought I'd give him and others a little insight into your site.

The word "hyperbole" can be used in several contexts, and it applies here. However, maybe if I had included "puffery" or "hype" or "unsubstantiated claims", it would have been more clear to you. But I'm not going to nitpick - the idea is clear. The point is, simply, for all the verbosity and grandious language used on your site, you never once cite example cases of frequency/amplitude vibrations of components subjected to an acoustic stimulus, nor the dB of attenuation of them by your product(s).

Despite your product claims about vibration control for audio components, you apparently don't have even the most basic understanding of long-established vibration measurement practices among professional vibration control engineers, where appropriate measurement methodologies have been well-understood for many decades. In a professional client/consultant situation, a client is likely to figuratively "laugh at" conclusions made without such measurement evidence. You may want to google the phrase "vibration measurement", "vibration control", and similar terms.

"But I can see you didn't bother to read any of the early feedback on my old website."

No reason to. It would not make a difference with regard to the content of your website.

It is easy enough to place an accelerometer on a component, subject the component to an acoustic sound source, get a frequency/amplitude curve of the resulting vibration, and then repeat the procedure with the component constrained within your rack system. "X" dB attenuation at "X" frequency range. Easy-peasy. Then, the only variable is: Can we hear the difference, and is it significant.


Edits: 12/19/17
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