Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics?

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2) Grand Prix Audio racking systems -- which include a variety of isolation methods including ball/cup feet exactly to deal with floor borne vibration (Apex footers)
http://www.grandprixaudio.com/research
http://www.grandprixaudio.com/products/apex#product-features

Well at least these tests and measurements are a little better documented, but not really reproducible nor do they make any specific claims. The charts have no units at all.  In the test results they make no measurements of improving sound quality just vibrations. Not at all the same thing. Material and Industrial engineers have had established methods for doing this for ages. Nice to see someone, anyone, in audio taking up this approach, but whether or not they are relevant to audiophiles is not demonstrated here.


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Erik

As I've said before, testing and measuring the benefits of vibration control in home audio should be easy, and inexpensive. I've yet to see the loop closed.

Doing this work could lead to cheaper and better sounding equipment when we have definite, exact, nuanced information to guide our manufacturing choices. If any of this exists for audio, I've yet to see any of it.



Best,


Erik

Erik -- I have nothing to add to your comments, best take them up with Shunyata directly.

That's far beyond the level of attention this deserves. :)

Best,

Erik

erik_squires

As I've said before, testing and measuring the benefits of vibration control in home audio should be easy, and inexpensive. I've yet to see the loop closed.

Agreed! Mind you, I'm rather certain that I've heard the benefits of vibration control in my system and because this is just a hobby to me, I'm satisfied with that.  But measuring the results of isolation and correlating that to listening tests shouldn't be that big a deal for manufacturers.  The absence of that documentation is what helps fuel the skeptics.

Cleeeds wrote,

"Agreed! Mind you, I'm rather certain that I've heard the benefits of vibration control in my system and because this is just a hobby to me, I'm satisfied with that. But measuring the results of isolation and correlating that to listening tests shouldn't be that big a deal for manufacturers. The absence of that documentation is what helps fuel the skeptics."

We've been through this already. Manufacturers actually shouldn't be the ones making measurements for vibration control/vibration isolation, it should be some third party independent agency. Furthermore, even under ideal conditions, and with competent testers, because of the obvious variations and vagaries in vibration environments from town to town and city to city and system to system, the results of such tests would not necessarily be that helpful. As we have seen ever since the dawn of audiophiles, listening tests are not particularly reliable for anything. Besides, nobody measures cables, room treatments, CD treatments, tweaks of any kind, so why should vibration control/vibration isolation be any different?