Guys I will post an intersting demo protocall I designed when I worked at Innovative Audio in NYC.
The store has a whole bunch of solid steel racks which are a metal frame with little tiptoes and mdf shelves.
I would do a demo comparing a $995 Rega Apollo CD player vs a $3,000 Classe CD player.
Started with both players on top of their racks connected to the same integrated amplifier and speakers.
I would play the $1k Rega which sounded good and then the more expensive $3k Classe player.
Then started by adding a set of $60 Black Diamond Racking Cones under the Rega, and the Rega improved in focus, macro dynamics. Still not as good as the Classe but audibily better.
Then added a Black Diamond Racing Shelf which was $900 slab of carbon fiber and other damping materials and another set of cones and boom the Rega sounded way better than the Classe, the sound stage was wider, details were clearer, macro dynamics were improved. The $995 Rega now outperformed the $3,000 Classe, then at the last part of the demo took the Rega off the isolation base and put on the Classe and boom the Classe was now sounding again far better.
The demo was so conclusive than in one year I sold $60k worth of Black Diamond Racing product.
The moral of the story is that removing vibrations from both solid state and tube gear makes that gear perform better it is really that simple.
With all of these devices it is not hard to arrange for an in home demo.
We had a similar experience now with the Isoacoustics pucks a set of their $20 pucks made a very audible improvement under a set of ATC SCM 19 we just lifted up the speaker put down three pucks and listened to the same track, the importer’s rep heard it, I heard it and two customers in the shop heard it. So it was either mass hypnosis or these devices do tend to work.
Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ
The store has a whole bunch of solid steel racks which are a metal frame with little tiptoes and mdf shelves.
I would do a demo comparing a $995 Rega Apollo CD player vs a $3,000 Classe CD player.
Started with both players on top of their racks connected to the same integrated amplifier and speakers.
I would play the $1k Rega which sounded good and then the more expensive $3k Classe player.
Then started by adding a set of $60 Black Diamond Racking Cones under the Rega, and the Rega improved in focus, macro dynamics. Still not as good as the Classe but audibily better.
Then added a Black Diamond Racing Shelf which was $900 slab of carbon fiber and other damping materials and another set of cones and boom the Rega sounded way better than the Classe, the sound stage was wider, details were clearer, macro dynamics were improved. The $995 Rega now outperformed the $3,000 Classe, then at the last part of the demo took the Rega off the isolation base and put on the Classe and boom the Classe was now sounding again far better.
The demo was so conclusive than in one year I sold $60k worth of Black Diamond Racing product.
The moral of the story is that removing vibrations from both solid state and tube gear makes that gear perform better it is really that simple.
With all of these devices it is not hard to arrange for an in home demo.
We had a similar experience now with the Isoacoustics pucks a set of their $20 pucks made a very audible improvement under a set of ATC SCM 19 we just lifted up the speaker put down three pucks and listened to the same track, the importer’s rep heard it, I heard it and two customers in the shop heard it. So it was either mass hypnosis or these devices do tend to work.
Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ