Easy, cheap tweak


A couple of weeks ago I was looking through the Mapleshade website, and I saw a product called Heavyhats - brass weights that you put on top of your components to damp vibration. I didn't think much about it at the time.

Well, tonight I was rearranging some bookshelves, and I came upon a couple of small brass bookends. I remembered the Heavyhats, so I put one on top of my Oppo 105, and I'll be damned if it didn't make a very significant difference! There was suddenly far less sibilance, and the bass was deeper and more controlled. The music just seemed to flow with much greater ease. I put the otter bookend on top of my integrated, and there was another jump in performance, although not as dramatic as with the CD player.

A pretty cool discovery - might be worth trying.

Scott
smrex13
Brass hats placed onto the flexible chassis surface may seem to boost vibrations instead of reducing.
If you don't care how it looks, textbooks work very well. If you put cones under the component, that helps too.