Where does one place AQ sorbogel feet?

My experience with Sorbothane beneath electronics has been the same as Dougdeacon's beneath speakers. Severely dulled, slow and dark. Sucked the life right out of the music. So if this is what damping is all about then direct coupling is the way to go. Remember your electronics were designed to operate over a much wider bandwidth than the music we hear. There are also harmonics of fundamentals that extend way beyond what we supposedly can hear. If we squelch these harmonics either by accident or by design then we are altering the life of the music. Couple not dampen..Tom's point of view..

Interesting points Tom. I've never bothered to try Sorbothane beneath electronics. Guess I won't!

Putting it just beneath the feet of my rack isolates the components without directly dampening them. A quieter rack must be good. No component is designed to work while being shaken but, as you say, no component is designed to have its own vibrational energy damped either. This has been very helpful, thanks.

We can now explain why, for example, the reportedly excellent Grand Prix Audio racks sound so good (multiple isolation/dampening layers) and also why GPA advises us *not* to isolate or dampen individual components. Let the rack do the isolation, leave the components free to work as designed.

There I go again Bundee1. Sorbothane pucks beneath my TT did isolate it from footfalls. Can't say whether they affected the sound because I've made too many other system changes recently to tell. I'll have to A/B, like you. The discussion above implies I should take them out and let the squidgy bits beneath the rack do the protecting.

Please guys feel totally free to contribute to this thread. You guys are still on topic and Im benefiting greatly from your experiences. Keep this discussion alive, and thanks for sharing.

I may be the old guy here. I have, and am guilty of the following . Making several changes to my system at the same time. My enthusiasm and excitement sometimes clouds my better judgement. I have to temper my emotions and not rush to a premature conclusion. Only one device or one measurement at only one single time, that is the only way to truly measure a change and hopefully an improvement. I will try to remember this. Tom

Enthusiasm? Excitement?? Just for music??? Shame on you! Nobody else here would stoop to that level.

The first piece I happened to listen to on our new speakers was Beethoven's 6th. Couldn't get through the 5th movement without tears. Didn't even try to :)