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Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics?

Mechanical grounding or isolation from vibration has been a hot topic as of late.  Many know from experience that footers, stands and other vibration technologies impact things that vibrate a lot like speakers, subs or even listening rooms (my recent experience with an "Energy room").  The question is does it have merit when it comes to electronics and if so why?  Are there plausible explanations for their effect on electronics or suggested measurement paradigms to document such an effect?
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geoffkait
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This is what Tom wrote initially,

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The amount of reflected signal refracted back into the signal path is what's most important. The signal path is all solid materials including their boundaries with other solid materials. You cannot measure refraction with a laser as described. 

You say refracted and reflected.  And more importantly what on Earth are you even talking about? How does your post address what atmasphere wrote regarding lasers and speaker stands? 

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geoffkait
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I’m not terribly surprised to see Agear welcome Ethan Winer with open arms. Neither one of these isolation denyers - not to mention the two dudes from SS - even knows what vibration isolation is. Birds of a feather flock together.

ethan_winer
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Why does it matter if a laser shows that the surface of a loudspeaker enclosure moves? How much movement is needed to make an audible difference? I'll never understand why some people are so willing to measure the wrong things and come to a wrong conclusion, when it's so easy to measure the right things and get the right conclusion!
ethan_winer
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Edit: Okay, I do understand why people who sell solutions to non-existent problems are willing to promote magical thinking. But why do consumers fall for this stuff?
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dlcockrum
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Geoffkait: "I’m not terribly surprised to see Agear welcome Ethan Winer with open arms."

A definite turn for the worse.
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