Does highend heavy amps needs ampstands?


I know for sure that my CDP needs good support but how about big amps. My big Rowland 8 is now directly on the wood floor bween the speakers. How does floor vibration effect sound on amps? Any particular amp stand to recommend?
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putting it on spikes (tiptoes) with protective discs for the floor should do a good job. If your amp weighs over 50 pounds that should do enough. A block of granite or other stone or concrete would be good too. A stand if you are loaded with $$$.
Yes the amp should be isolated from the vibratioal feedback of the floor. a lot of electronic parts can have effects from being vibrated, the biggest is tubes, but caps and other stuff can add grung to the sound from being vibrated.
Elizabeth, have you anything to back up your assertions about the ill effects of vibration on solid state circuitry or are you repeating something someone repeated to you because that person had heard it also repeated. I think I am being repetitious, you get my drift.
All amps especially powerfull ones do have a vibrations and you can't kill it whether you're going to use granite or marble stand.
Elevating the amps will add an extra room for heat sinks. I have my amps on my journal table since I needn't any journal table now and it kind-of convenient to access to the binding posts, mut switches etc.
Experience.
My little amp, a Forte' 4a has better sound when I dampened the external heatsink fins. High frequency information was cleaner, more precise. I use chunks of rubber bottle stoppers cut into thinner strips, staggered across the fins. This was also mentioned in some article I read about MY AMP, later.
Yes, it is difficult to know if someone is just making stuff up, if they are an expert in the field, if they have actually experienced the phenomena, if they are just totally looney anyway, if they have studied it with an open mind, if they have studied it with extreme bias blinding them to anything but what they are certain has to be, because that is what makes sense to them....