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
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Zd, for the better looks did you try usin' dirty magazines on there?"

That's a trick question. An audiophile could never afford dirty magazines because all the money goes to cables. The only exception is TAS and Stereophile. Without them, we wouldn't know what cables to buy.
Anyone can afford some issue of dirty magazine. Sometimes they're found among craigslist free items.
I use bricks with a felt pad underneath. I invented brick technology about 30 yrs ago.
Of course it should be pointed out that the original VPI Brick wasn't a brick at all.