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Ok, so the sorbothane under everything is a no go...I don't know if I can completely describe what it did. Everything felt darker, too dark. Voices sounded more distant, and the sound stage definitely shrank some.

So I pulled it out from the corners of the shelf where my preamp resides and it sounded immediately a little bit more back to the way it was. I think you need to be careful with this sorbothane stuff, it can really make a significant sonic difference in a system. Good or bad.

I am curious now, I pull it all out if it will sound even better. Good way to find a balance potentially.

I won a Salamander too. I bought solid maple wood (2") from TimberNation and use thise cork and rubber squares sold by MapleShade (I bought them froom an indsutrual supplier for about $2 a piece)and place the equipment direct on the maple shelves. The equipment looks great, the maple is very non-resonant and heavy, and the cork stuff seems to be a really good isolation material. Frankly, I don't know if it sounds better, but I did stop worrying about it (for now).

06-13-07: Jc51373
Ok, so the sorbothane under everything is a no go...I don't know if I can completely describe what it did. Everything felt darker, too dark. Voices sounded more distant, and the sound stage definitely shrank some.

Every isolation tweak is best done in small increments, IMO.

I would think that sorbothane under everything would not produce good results.

I presently use it between shelves and shelf supports (1/8" thick sorbothane), and I use it under tubed power supplies (3/8" thick sorbothane).

I agree Tvad, so this was a learning experience for me without a doubt. I went with the notion that all tube equipment needed to be isolated, and that Sorbo was best for it. I was wrong.

I have since removed most of it and things are back to normal.