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Anyone try the mapleshade to see if worth extra $ over the dayton or vibrapod or others?

There are two mapleshade feet v3...one 2 feet high and one 1.5 high

The Mapleshade feet to get (if you get'em) are the Threaded Heavyfeet at $40 each, or $160/set for a Technics.

A-goners who have them like them a lot. I'm not sure if anyone has had the smaller Dayton cones and then upgraded for comparison. I am guessing that the Mapleshades would sound noticeably better than the Daytons. They almost certainly would sound different, as the heavier weight would change the mass loading, vibration paths, and resonant frequencies.

Ditto for the Isonoe footers. Some have Mapleshade cones; others have Isonoe footers at about the same price, but I don't know of anyone who has tried both.

Mapleshade cones are coupling devices. Isonoe footers are isolating devices.

Each must make the table sound differently.

james,

it looks like the dayton isolation cones are now $25.19 + shipping for set of 4 if I am not mistaken which product to order.

I will try this since its so much less than the mapleshade

it looks like the dayton isolation cones are now $25.19...
Radioheadokplayer (Threads | Answers)

Despite their name, Dayton brass isolation cones are not isolation devices. They are coupling devices.

Metal cones drain vibration to the surface below by coupling to it. Dayton cones, Mapleshade footer, and AudioPoints are examples.

There are many isolation devices: industrial air tables, audio platforms by Neuance, HRS, etc., Herbie's footers, Isonoe footers, Vibrapods, and sorbothane.

Some products try to accomplish both. Symposium Rollerblocks, Aurios, and Boston TuneBlocks are examples of these.

Which of these an individual will prefer is entirely up to the individual, IMO.