Live Vibe point shape minimizes shear wave interference from returning back into the tip..shear waves only travel in solids and are of dual polarity until they split again after hitting another material boundary ...and split again and again. Limit interfering energy from re entry into the signal path makes for a much cleaner sound..The brass coupling discs do a least 2 things.. they act as a impedance matching mechanical sink ( same material not different) While at the same time they increase the effective surface area and efficiency of the tip..only a couple materials for maximum transfer. Brass is very important but shape changes in the material are easily heard..as in a violin or cello.
It is absorbing, you only can reduce vibrations and resonances, which are in consequences vibrations, by absorbing mechanical movement into heat or into a much lower mechanical movement. This hardly possible with hard materials. Yes there are things like isolating your source of YX axis movement by increase the inertia of your source and put it on top of hard ceramic balls, which translates the movement into side shift XY. But Z axis is still a problem because of gravity. And with that it is the best way for Z axis movement to absorb it.
Always been a proponent of good coupling and vibration transfer to a high mass absorbing material. In fact my turntable is based on that principle. Chasis attached to a high mass 30kg plinth via multiple screws that act as pathways. All vibrations generated by the motor and moving parts are immediately sunk.
I love your videos, you really care about your passion and sharing your knowledge. My Audiomat electronics all have brass cones underneath (Three per units).
Vibrapods are good enough really. And i also doubt that they do what u claim, sucking away the highs. There are 5 different grades, and can also be used with their cones. I use them under my transport. To me they work just fine.
The reason most audiophiles are not good tweakers is you have to have "ears". If you make true improvements, the instruments themselves will sound different. You have to have 'ears" and a bit of experience to know if that "different" is a good different or a bad different; or just plain different. If you don't have great instincts and are rarely wrong on judgements about anything audio, you've got to turn to being scientific, to figure out what's an improvement and what's not. Most audiophiles don't know how to be scientific. All week I have been playing this one cd each and every day, sometimes only it, and some days in addition to playing some other stuff. I am still enjoying the music. It's improving each day with my mods, but I got to keep listening to it, if I'm going to use it as an evaluative tool. Not only that, to be scientific i got to put my cd player on repeat for a few hours; at low volume. I won't hear it in the other room much, until I'm ready. I can hear components changing in sound (improving) too rapidly until they're on a few hours. Even then, everything is warming up a little bit yet, but things have settled down some. Not as much a difference in the sound at the end of the cd compared to the 45 minutes ago start of it. The warmed up equipment has lost its electronic signature that it too obviously had an hour or so ago. The sound has gotten bigger with more depth and seperation than when it just started playing. Now is the time for evaluating if what you did before is going to make a difference; and if it does, in what ways and by how much? This is more poetic than I usually get, but what the heck, I'm in a groove.. That album I've been playing for a week and I'm now turning the volume up at around the 2 hour mark. I wanted to see if greening the edges of the cd will be audible and worthwhile. It's been a long time since I greened a cd. All week I've heard it played un-greened. I know the cd well now from such familiarity and how everything sounds on it, is in my short term memory, where I need it, having played it so much recently. The edge greening from the paint pen is dry now. I start to listen and before I can figure out exactly why I like it better; it's just better. Then I realize; it's a little bigger sounding, quite a bit more natural sounding, and I definitely can hear it's more open sounding. Less edgy too. I sit there listening; hard not to enjoy it, the sound and music is so good. But I can't help but think of those people on the forums making fun of how people used too green cds. Maybe if they had ears and were doing things in a scientific way, they'd be able to easily hear it too. But they'd need someone taking them by the hand and telling them what to look for. With the equipment they use; I don't know. I was using headphones this week to listen. Each day I did a little mod. A week later my headphones have tight bass, which they didn't have at the start of the week. It really does sound like I can hear detail all the way down to the noise floor now. I can't believe how obvious and easy to hear some of the music is now. At the beginning of the week, some things were real subtleties. Not subtleties anymore, they really stand out. I can't believe just days ago they were subtleties. There's other stuff though now I can hear. Really low level stuff. The new subtleties. I wonder if with further improvement the same thing will happen with them. Audio is really fun. Now that I'm done modding for a while, I can really enjoy listening to the music, without thinking about it. That's a bit of an art too.
Greening Works.. Is Audio Prism Byron still around ? well, Ill tell you streaming alleviates ALL the BS that CD's have and its WAY more convenient and you'll discover new music and explore all the time. Honestly, once you try streaming, you'll laugh at the thought of hard media and all the tweaking one must do to it.. Look, Ive got the best hard media there is , Master Tape.. and I RARELY if EVER listen to it in favor of streaming .... Of course streaming on a world class rig.. not cheap ass crap... But $3K for a streamer will do it and $5K on a DAC
@@OCDHIFiGuy Most of the guys on TH-cam say for soind quality, just slapping on a cd on a good player sounds better than streaming. Not sure if they've tried ones high enough up the food chain. Guys like Steve Guttenberg (Audiophiliac) and Paul McGowan of PS Audio. Some who I assume are credible, say that even premium streaming services, in order to accommodate the enormous amount of data that their humongous music libraries require, lessen dynamics and resolution bits to economize on their data storage. I have no idea if this is true or not, but it scares a lot of people. Maybe it's wrong for some reason. I have never heard a high end streamer to know. I do stream on lesser devices and find it better than FM, but with what I am using for streaming it lacks presence a bit. I don't doubt that it can get quite a bit better. I am not one to make absolutistic statements about stuff outside my experience. I remember one one time on an audio forum, one guy was insisting how cds had better sound than vinyl. His arguments sounded really credible and impressive even, and then one guy asked him to post a pic of his vinyl playing rig. It suddenly appeared on the screen. It was one of those all in one things. No, not an integrated amp. It was one of those things where the amp, receiver, and cassette deck are all integrated on one chassis, with the turntable designed to be sitting right above the FM. I once had a system like that. I had to sort of put my fingers under the turntable and nudge it upward on its springs for it to avoid interfering with my turning my FM tuning knob. There was a piece of string involved with the FM tuning knob which kept scraping the underside of the turntable, and making it hard to turn the knob and get my favorite channel. They didn't have as many commercials.
@sides up if one economizes storage by compressing their files, then shame on them. Storage is cheaper than ever these days. Steve and Paul are part of the "Audio Cabal" meaning they say whatever they need to for the corporation/s. The streamer is FAR less important than the DAC that decodes it. PS Audio DACs are only regular DACs they are not GREAT... it takes a GREAT DAC to beat out all other forms..
I installed the Vibrapods under my Audio Research preamp this morning and it made a vast improvement. Certainly didnt reduce treble or introduce flabbiness
There are 5 different grades...you can certainly use them under something heavier. In fact, you are supposed to use various grades together under one component. The higher grade # belongs under the transformer or heavier part of the equipment. Combine with their cones for even better results.
Yes, but how do they sound? You’ve always said that materials and construction are unimportant and that’s it’s all about the effect on the music. I’d contend that isolation can both help and hurt the music based on how it’s used.
He makes them for the Cello end points (used in the Symphony Orchestra) as well as Grand Piano there as well... So its kind of proven many years ago with science and many users, but I understand you laugh at what you dont understand..
@@OCDHIFiGuy Well, allow me to retort...I'm laughing so hard because I Do understand. In the book 'The Kybalion' read the chapter 'The Principle of Vibration'...then You'll understand that Everything vibrates...inclusive of the ubiquitous plethora of insanely overpriced hifi-neurotic gizmos & gadgetries that purportedly reduce, disperse, or eliminate vibrations deemed Unholy by The Hifi Puritan Evangelists...Touche', LOL !
Hello my friend. I wonder why the small plate under the copper tip to decouple it from the floor if in fact you want to couple the tip into the floor to drain the vibration?
Great set of vids, Mikey! I’m glad to see your collection of rejected tweaks [including your own ;)], favoring your Live Vibe Audio tweaks. I’m glad to admit my prior exploration in this vibration tweak space wasn’t totally crazy. I’ve tried the Black Diamond Racing carbon fiber tweaks, sorbothane tweaks, and the mysterious Aurios MIB isolation devices. I’ve sold all these devices. I’ve only kept my Symposium Acoustics platforms. Now I’m on the hunt to try your preferred Live Vibe Audio devices.
Unfortunately you, like many others, create an either/or choice. Isolation is not bad. It is good, but not in and of itself. You are correct in a sense when you say levitating our gear would not be a good thing. However, levitation is not true isolation, because there are vibrations generated internally that can’t be removed from the equipment by the surrounding air. And, of course, the equipment will pick up vibration by means of the sound waves to which it is exposed during playback. Another thing we commonly which we should not accept until someone proves it, is that vibration can proceed in a one way direction, through a point. I keep hearing this, and physically it makes no sense. Good heavy brass spikes, like those sold by Mapleshade, can and do markedly improve the sound of electronic equipment, but this is not because the vibrations are transferred in one direction out of the spike tip. Rather, it is because the spikes have a lot of mass and the material of construction is good at converting mechanical or kinetic energy to heat. I’ve heard this with my own ears on my own equipment.
I used ceramic tile but i found it sounded too hard, so i went to steel..better but colder than brass. Sadly brass oxidised andI noticed a loss of high end. A quick polish brought it right though. I experimented with different tone woods. Unlacquered wood gave me a more natural sound, varnish dulled the treble and made everything muddy, so i decided to paint the wood. Black was too dark sounding and red was too forward. I settled on a dark green. It gave me the most organic tone without being tiring. With acorn green, I listened all night and never wanted to leave.
Mikey, I am currently undergoing a Binaural Beats Detoxification through the Solfeggio Scale Frequencies for the the Purging of all of my Vinyl Equipment that created unwanted Vibrations in my life! Thanks to your Enlightenment I see the Shedding through Playback Streamer and DAC! No more bad Vibrations!🙌✌
So your saying rubber is no good right... So the italian brand Sonus Faber who decouple their lumina II with rubber pads don't know what they'd doing...hmmm interesting
Use the Yamamoto ebony magnetic floating feet under my Jeff Rowland pre amp. sounds insanely good. anything else I put under it, sounds exaggerated or unnatural. Use only 1 set of 4, more would make the sound too relaxed.
@@OCDHIFiGuy It doesn't matter if it's a Band-Aid Mike, if it does what makes you happy. Just brass alone can also make it too brassy. not everything is always unambiguous, there are more roads that lead to Rome. But i get your point....
@@stratenboek Thats right.. Whatever makes you happy... If a body full of band aids is it... Cool. ! I prefer to heal the body so band aids are not required... Its my whole pitch.. the foundation of why I exist for audiophiles.. To cut through the BS and get to the point of how to do it well, efficiently and get you OUT of buying HiFi... not to keep you plugging holes... Hope you understand my intention is based in your favor not the industry ..
Not Marble or Granite as they are natural with a non homogenous density. Rock can ring as well. Brass cones into the brass sinks on top of the wood floor is best.
Welcome what ever works best for a certain budget maybe something to consider but there is no better solution in my opinion than rigid coupling. Thanks for your feedback
Everything is either cheap or bot make sense except the ones you sell. Very Convincing. Big Brass cones better than everything else? You have to be kidding.
@@derreckgilmore3360 I stay away from Pangolin in the Wet market.. I can dig the Sushi Bar however.. Clam strips are a favorite.. Im a little iffy on the Giant Bearded Clam Foot though. Hand Rolls are good too...
@@OCDHIFiGuy Giant Bearded Clam Foot?...sounds like a cretin from an H.P. Lovecraft horror story...hope it was served shaved & pedicured, sans ocean-sewer fish-monger fish-finger fish-stink.
Hi Mikey, very informative video. I’ve seen people put heavy brass discs on top of components. Does this work? My amp weighs 140lbs and is very difficult to move.
Just for comparison sakes, prices would help give us an idea of something useful to try with low financial risk, as opposed to my gear isn’t worth going this high !
@@OCDHIFiGuy Sand...simple sand...could it be the Future, The Holy Grail, The Holiest of Holies for vibe suppression? (don't tell anyone though...it's dirt cheap & available everywhere).
@Derreck Gilmore only problem is it its inefficient at REMOVING vibration. It simply does not TRANSFER it well. So transformer hum stays inside the gear..
@@OCDHIFiGuy Everything vibrates...remove the transformer, the capacitors, the transistors, resistors, circuit boards, wires, power cord, chassis & those coveted glorious knobs, & you'll enjoy nothing but glorious, blissful silence.
I have not. They gave me an account a while back but I never bought anything because it's just really mainstream product and I seek out products that are less known and perhaps better performance. Maybe they're great but they are Springs in rubber as far as I know. Rigid coupling is what I like in all my tests. Therefore I really have no interest in trying out springy spongy materials. thanks for your question though.
@@OCDHIFiGuy Great vids as always. I have heavy Mye stands on my mag 1.7i and went from their included nicely milled brass points with matching sinks to the super popular IsoAcoustics Gaia feet (springs/rubber) for noticeable improvements across the board sonically including tightening everything up more, better soundstage, etc so in my Magnepan rig squishy isolation type feet beat coupling rigid brass spikes. I may be wrong but I believe IsoAcoustics theory, like Townshend, revolves around vibrations that come up from the ground or stands are worse than airborn vibrations therefore isolation from the ground/stand is more beneficial than draining away internal component vibrations; I have dual subs and am on hardwood over concrete flooring. I haven't tried their component product feet yet but had such good results with the speakers I may give them a try. I'm not affiliated in any way with IsoAcoustics, just hard to find any negative user reviews and Clayton Shaw designer at Spatial Audio likes them so much that he now includes them as his stock feet for all his speaker line. I also went from nice spikes/sinks on my dual subs to tennis balls for tighter/better bass, which I would have thought it to create the opposite and make it muddier. Maybe a lot of this simply depends on your rig, stand or table and type of flooring so try what works best.
@@OCDHIFiGuy I use isoacoustics gaia 2 under my ATC's. To my ears there is an improvement, a more engaging, realistic sound. I'd give them a go Mikey, theres a reason why people who buy them don't on-sell them. Thousands sold and they are very rare on the used market.
@@OCDHIFiGuy Theyb were invented for and used under electron scanning microscopes and of course freaks stetted to use the for turntables._read up on them I think you'd find it interesting
I think he has a brain of sponge maybe. Preposterous that u even think that it makes even one iota of difference. But, you know, a fool parts with his money. Bionic ears maybe.
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Live Vibe point shape minimizes shear wave interference from returning back into the tip..shear waves only travel in solids and are of dual polarity until they split again after hitting another material boundary ...and split again and again. Limit interfering energy from re entry into the signal path makes for a much cleaner sound..The brass coupling discs do a least 2 things.. they act as a impedance matching mechanical sink ( same material not different) While at the same time they increase the effective surface area and efficiency of the tip..only a couple materials for maximum transfer. Brass is very important but shape changes in the material are easily heard..as in a violin or cello.
It is absorbing, you only can reduce vibrations and resonances, which are in consequences vibrations, by absorbing mechanical movement into heat or into a much lower mechanical movement. This hardly possible with hard materials. Yes there are things like isolating your source of YX axis movement by increase the inertia of your source and put it on top of hard ceramic balls, which translates the movement into side shift XY. But Z axis is still a problem because of gravity. And with that it is the best way for Z axis movement to absorb it.
Absorbing is slow, transmission is fast. They sound different.
Great video
Explained a lot of mysteries that I couldn’t understand over the years
Thanks
Glad it was helpful!
Always been a proponent of good coupling and vibration transfer to a high mass absorbing material. In fact my turntable is based on that principle. Chasis attached to a high mass 30kg plinth via multiple screws that act as pathways. All vibrations generated by the motor and moving parts are immediately sunk.
There you go !
I love your videos, you really care about your passion and sharing your knowledge. My Audiomat electronics all have brass cones underneath (Three per units).
There you go ! Thanks !
Vibrapods are good enough really. And i also doubt that they do what u claim, sucking away the highs. There are 5 different grades, and can also be used with their cones. I use them under my transport. To me they work just fine.
Great. Good enough works for most regular people.. ;-)
The reason most audiophiles are not good tweakers is you have to have "ears". If you make true improvements, the instruments themselves will sound different. You have to have 'ears" and a bit of experience to know if that "different" is a good different or a bad different; or just plain different. If you don't have great instincts and are rarely wrong on judgements about anything audio, you've got to turn to being scientific, to figure out what's an improvement and what's not. Most audiophiles don't know how to be scientific. All week I have been playing this one cd each and every day, sometimes only it, and some days in addition to playing some other stuff. I am still enjoying the music. It's improving each day with my mods, but I got to keep listening to it, if I'm going to use it as an evaluative tool. Not only that, to be scientific i got to put my cd player on repeat for a few hours; at low volume. I won't hear it in the other room much, until I'm ready. I can hear components changing in sound (improving) too rapidly until they're on a few hours. Even then, everything is warming up a little bit yet, but things have settled down some. Not as much a difference in the sound at the end of the cd compared to the 45 minutes ago start of it. The warmed up equipment has lost its electronic signature that it too obviously had an hour or so ago. The sound has gotten bigger with more depth and seperation than when it just started playing. Now is the time for evaluating if what you did before is going to make a difference; and if it does, in what ways and by how much? This is more poetic than I usually get, but what the heck, I'm in a groove..
That album I've been playing for a week and I'm now turning the volume up at around the 2 hour mark. I wanted to see if greening the edges of the cd will be audible and worthwhile. It's been a long time since I greened a cd. All week I've heard it played un-greened. I know the cd well now from such familiarity and how everything sounds on it, is in my short term memory, where I need it, having played it so much recently. The edge greening from the paint pen is dry now. I start to listen and before I can figure out exactly why I like it better; it's just better. Then I realize; it's a little bigger sounding, quite a bit more natural sounding, and I definitely can hear it's more open sounding. Less edgy too. I sit there listening; hard not to enjoy it, the sound and music is so good. But I can't help but think of those people on the forums making fun of how people used too green cds. Maybe if they had ears and were doing things in a scientific way, they'd be able to easily hear it too. But they'd need someone taking them by the hand and telling them what to look for. With the equipment they use; I don't know. I was using headphones this week to listen. Each day I did a little mod. A week later my headphones have tight bass, which they didn't have at the start of the week. It really does sound like I can hear detail all the way down to the noise floor now. I can't believe how obvious and easy to hear some of the music is now. At the beginning of the week, some things were real subtleties. Not subtleties anymore, they really stand out. I can't believe just days ago they were subtleties. There's other stuff though now I can hear. Really low level stuff. The new subtleties. I wonder if with further improvement the same thing will happen with them. Audio is really fun. Now that I'm done modding for a while, I can really enjoy listening to the music, without thinking about it. That's a bit of an art too.
Greening Works.. Is Audio Prism Byron still around ? well, Ill tell you streaming alleviates ALL the BS that CD's have and its WAY more convenient and you'll discover new music and explore all the time. Honestly, once you try streaming, you'll laugh at the thought of hard media and all the tweaking one must do to it.. Look, Ive got the best hard media there is , Master Tape.. and I RARELY if EVER listen to it in favor of streaming .... Of course streaming on a world class rig.. not cheap ass crap... But $3K for a streamer will do it and $5K on a DAC
@@OCDHIFiGuy Most of the guys on TH-cam say for soind quality, just slapping on a cd on a good player sounds better than streaming. Not sure if they've tried ones high enough up the food chain. Guys like Steve Guttenberg (Audiophiliac) and Paul McGowan of PS Audio. Some who I assume are credible, say that even premium streaming services, in order to accommodate the enormous amount of data that their humongous music libraries require, lessen dynamics and resolution bits to economize on their data storage. I have no idea if this is true or not, but it scares a lot of people. Maybe it's wrong for some reason. I have never heard a high end streamer to know. I do stream on lesser devices and find it better than FM, but with what I am using for streaming it lacks presence a bit. I don't doubt that it can get quite a bit better. I am not one to make absolutistic statements about stuff outside my experience. I remember one one time on an audio forum, one guy was insisting how cds had better sound than vinyl. His arguments sounded really credible and impressive even, and then one guy asked him to post a pic of his vinyl playing rig. It suddenly appeared on the screen. It was one of those all in one things. No, not an integrated amp. It was one of those things where the amp, receiver, and cassette deck are all integrated on one chassis, with the turntable designed to be sitting right above the FM. I once had a system like that. I had to sort of put my fingers under the turntable and nudge it upward on its springs for it to avoid interfering with my turning my FM tuning knob. There was a piece of string involved with the FM tuning knob which kept scraping the underside of the turntable, and making it hard to turn the knob and get my favorite channel. They didn't have as many commercials.
@sides up if one economizes storage by compressing their files, then shame on them. Storage is cheaper than ever these days. Steve and Paul are part of the "Audio Cabal" meaning they say whatever they need to for the corporation/s. The streamer is FAR less important than the DAC that decodes it. PS Audio DACs are only regular DACs they are not GREAT... it takes a GREAT DAC to beat out all other forms..
I installed the Vibrapods under my Audio Research preamp this morning and it made a vast improvement. Certainly didnt reduce treble or introduce flabbiness
Well aren't you the lucky one ?? Stick with what you have !!
@@OCDHIFiGuy Yeah!!! Wouldn't use them under anything heavy though. My pre amp is only 9kg.
There are 5 different grades...you can certainly use them under something heavier. In fact, you are supposed to use various grades together under one component. The higher grade # belongs under the transformer or heavier part of the equipment. Combine with their cones for even better results.
Yes, but how do they sound? You’ve always said that materials and construction are unimportant and that’s it’s all about the effect on the music. I’d contend that isolation can both help and hurt the music based on how it’s used.
Laughing so hard my chair is vibrating...time for a brass Chair Seat Isolation Pad...with the points facing down, of course!
He makes them for the Cello end points (used in the Symphony Orchestra) as well as Grand Piano there as well... So its kind of proven many years ago with science and many users, but I understand you laugh at what you dont understand..
@@OCDHIFiGuy Well, allow me to retort...I'm laughing so hard because I Do understand. In the book 'The Kybalion' read the chapter 'The Principle of Vibration'...then You'll understand that Everything vibrates...inclusive of the ubiquitous plethora of insanely overpriced hifi-neurotic gizmos & gadgetries that purportedly reduce, disperse, or eliminate vibrations deemed Unholy by The Hifi Puritan Evangelists...Touche', LOL !
@@OCDHIFiGuy That's no logic at all. Some pianists use other anti vibration devices and most use nothing but cheesy wheels. SMH
Hello my friend. I wonder why the small plate under the copper tip to decouple it from the floor if in fact you want to couple the tip into the floor to drain the vibration?
Great set of vids, Mikey! I’m glad to see your collection of rejected tweaks [including your own ;)], favoring your Live Vibe Audio tweaks. I’m glad to admit my prior exploration in this vibration tweak space wasn’t totally crazy. I’ve tried the Black Diamond Racing carbon fiber tweaks, sorbothane tweaks, and the mysterious Aurios MIB isolation devices. I’ve sold all these devices. I’ve only kept my Symposium Acoustics platforms. Now I’m on the hunt to try your preferred Live Vibe Audio devices.
Mine are not Rejected, I just can't use them on my stands !! Try Live Vibe and compare to Symp.
@@OCDHIFiGuy your Cali pal with that new Playback Design amp is sitting it upon a Symp Ultra platform…
@Drago Celander it's the only thing he had sitting there. After $124K I was not pitching a rack. It's too small for the amp.
Unfortunately you, like many others, create an either/or choice. Isolation is not bad. It is good, but not in and of itself. You are correct in a sense when you say levitating our gear would not be a good thing. However, levitation is not true isolation, because there are vibrations generated internally that can’t be removed from the equipment by the surrounding air. And, of course, the equipment will pick up vibration by means of the sound waves to which it is exposed during playback. Another thing we commonly which we should not accept until someone proves it, is that vibration can proceed in a one way direction, through a point. I keep hearing this, and physically it makes no sense. Good heavy brass spikes, like those sold by Mapleshade, can and do markedly improve the sound of electronic equipment, but this is not because the vibrations are transferred in one direction out of the spike tip. Rather, it is because the spikes have a lot of mass and the material of construction is good at converting mechanical or kinetic energy to heat. I’ve heard this with my own ears on my own equipment.
I used ceramic tile but i found it sounded too hard, so i went to steel..better but colder than brass. Sadly brass oxidised andI noticed a loss of high end. A quick polish brought it right though.
I experimented with different tone woods. Unlacquered wood gave me a more natural sound, varnish dulled the treble and made everything muddy, so i decided to paint the wood. Black was too dark sounding and red was too forward. I settled on a dark green. It gave me the most organic tone without being tiring. With acorn green, I listened all night and never wanted to leave.
Mikey, I am currently undergoing a Binaural Beats Detoxification through the Solfeggio Scale Frequencies for the the Purging of all of my Vinyl Equipment that created unwanted Vibrations in my life! Thanks to your Enlightenment I see the Shedding through Playback Streamer and DAC! No more bad Vibrations!🙌✌
I was listening to 432 this morning. I'm going to share a song with you guys that basically brings me to tears.
I looked into that Solfeggio stuff for medical reasons (hiatal hernia)...there's definitely something to it...
Now Mikey be vibin' son!
Woot woots hellz yeah!
Namasté
Namaste and Om Shanti.. !
While what most of what OCD says here I agree with, cones do next to nothing.
So your saying rubber is no good right... So the italian brand Sonus Faber who decouple their lumina II with rubber pads don't know what they'd doing...hmmm interesting
So you're saying sugar is no good, huh ? So Coca-Cola, the biggest soda brand doesn't know what they are doing ??? Hmmmmm
Never heard of this company Mikey. Thx
You bet !
it's better to be one of the vibration control pretenders and keep brass in pocket! 😀
I'm going to make you, make you notice....
Use the Yamamoto ebony magnetic floating feet under my Jeff Rowland pre amp. sounds insanely good. anything else I put under it, sounds exaggerated or unnatural. Use only 1 set of 4, more would make the sound too relaxed.
I have a Rowland Capri where did you buy the Yama feet..thanks
@@twx4184 Hi TWX Not sure anymore, but I think at jac music in germany. but Yamamoto also has its own webshop, I have also ordered there sometime.
So you are describing exactly what I was talking about when I said using vibration control as a Band-Aid.
@@OCDHIFiGuy It doesn't matter if it's a Band-Aid Mike, if it does what makes you happy. Just brass alone can also make it too brassy. not everything is always unambiguous, there are more roads that lead to Rome. But i get your point....
@@stratenboek Thats right.. Whatever makes you happy... If a body full of band aids is it... Cool. ! I prefer to heal the body so band aids are not required... Its my whole pitch.. the foundation of why I exist for audiophiles.. To cut through the BS and get to the point of how to do it well, efficiently and get you OUT of buying HiFi... not to keep you plugging holes... Hope you understand my intention is based in your favor not the industry ..
Thanks for the vids. Any modification in recommendation coupling to a suspended wood floor such as first from brass into marble then to the wood?
Not Marble or Granite as they are natural with a non homogenous density. Rock can ring as well. Brass cones into the brass sinks on top of the wood floor is best.
I take my old squash balls and cut them in half, fill them with rubber and they make good rubber isolation feet
I take Aluminum foil and wrap it around a coat hanger and stick it in my TV and it makes a good antenna.
I take Aluminum foil and wrap it around a coat hanger and stick it in my TV and it makes a good antenna.
Do u wear a tin foil hat also?
Nice vid.
Instead of one approach to energy management, maybe an approach of whatever works best, in situ, ... could be helpful.
Welcome what ever works best for a certain budget maybe something to consider but there is no better solution in my opinion than rigid coupling. Thanks for your feedback
3:38 - true.
Everything is either cheap or bot make sense except the ones you sell. Very Convincing.
Big Brass cones better than everything else? You have to be kidding.
Clearly you haven't figured out I'm the best there is and ever was. Take a hike.
@@OCDHIFiGuy You said "I'm are the best there is"?
Not even "One of the best"?
Your ego is like your audio room - needs some serious cleaning.
@@OCDHIFiGuy you are the Muhammad Ali of audio !
It took me less than one minute to figure that out. Obviously pushes bs overly priced unproven and completely subjective objects.
WOW
You can tune a rig, but you can't tuna fish.
Unless you're at the strip club..
@@OCDHIFiGuy I abhor fish tacos, & strictly avoid coupling & vibration transfer in fish market clubs.
@@derreckgilmore3360 I stay away from Pangolin in the Wet market.. I can dig the Sushi Bar however.. Clam strips are a favorite.. Im a little iffy on the Giant Bearded Clam Foot though. Hand Rolls are good too...
@@OCDHIFiGuy Giant Bearded Clam Foot?...sounds like a cretin from an H.P. Lovecraft horror story...hope it was served shaved & pedicured, sans ocean-sewer fish-monger fish-finger fish-stink.
what about isoacoustics Gaia under the speakers. ?
People seem to like them.
Hi Mikey, very informative video. I’ve seen people put heavy brass discs on top of components. Does this work? My amp weighs 140lbs and is very difficult to move.
Yes, it mass loads the cabinet.... It can help lower cabinet resonance...
@@OCDHIFiGuy Thanks, I really appreciate you responding to questions. Most guys on TH-cam channels don’t bother.👍
Just for comparison sakes, prices would help give us an idea of something useful to try with low financial risk, as opposed to my gear isn’t worth going this high !
$300 for a set of Live Vibe cones.. ;-)
Have you try Alto extremo?
Try placing egregious dynamo-hum rig components in shallow boxes filled with sand & kitty litter (be sure to remove the turds first!).
Sand is VERY good for damping..
@@OCDHIFiGuy Sand...simple sand...could it be the Future, The Holy Grail, The Holiest of Holies for vibe suppression? (don't tell anyone though...it's dirt cheap & available everywhere).
@Derreck Gilmore only problem is it its inefficient at REMOVING vibration. It simply does not TRANSFER it well. So transformer hum stays inside the gear..
@@OCDHIFiGuy Everything vibrates...remove the transformer, the capacitors, the transistors, resistors, circuit boards, wires, power cord, chassis & those coveted glorious knobs, & you'll enjoy nothing but glorious, blissful silence.
6:30 doody parts lol
What about ISO Acoustics Gaia?
Its a rubber covered spring.. so somewhere in the middle..
Have you tried Isoacoustics?
I have not. They gave me an account a while back but I never bought anything because it's just really mainstream product and I seek out products that are less known and perhaps better performance. Maybe they're great but they are Springs in rubber as far as I know. Rigid coupling is what I like in all my tests. Therefore I really have no interest in trying out springy spongy materials. thanks for your question though.
@@OCDHIFiGuy they work well under my TT and DAC
@@noone-cf2zo glad to hear it !! Or not hear it...errrrr
@@OCDHIFiGuy Great vids as always. I have heavy Mye stands on my mag 1.7i and went from their included nicely milled brass points with matching sinks to the super popular IsoAcoustics Gaia feet (springs/rubber) for noticeable improvements across the board sonically including tightening everything up more, better soundstage, etc so in my Magnepan rig squishy isolation type feet beat coupling rigid brass spikes. I may be wrong but I believe IsoAcoustics theory, like Townshend, revolves around vibrations that come up from the ground or stands are worse than airborn vibrations therefore isolation from the ground/stand is more beneficial than draining away internal component vibrations; I have dual subs and am on hardwood over concrete flooring. I haven't tried their component product feet yet but had such good results with the speakers I may give them a try. I'm not affiliated in any way with IsoAcoustics, just hard to find any negative user reviews and Clayton Shaw designer at Spatial Audio likes them so much that he now includes them as his stock feet for all his speaker line. I also went from nice spikes/sinks on my dual subs to tennis balls for tighter/better bass, which I would have thought it to create the opposite and make it muddier. Maybe a lot of this simply depends on your rig, stand or table and type of flooring so try what works best.
@@OCDHIFiGuy I use isoacoustics gaia 2 under my ATC's. To my ears there is an improvement, a more engaging, realistic sound. I'd give them a go Mikey, theres a reason why people who buy them don't on-sell them. Thousands sold and they are very rare on the used market.
What is your favorite audio fuse maker
I think audio fuses are a waste of time.
@@OCDHIFiGuy I value your feedback
@@twx4184 THX ;-)
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Active Vibraplane were a rage years ago
Not familiar..
@@OCDHIFiGuy Theyb were invented for and used under electron scanning microscopes and of course freaks stetted to use the for turntables._read up on them I think you'd find it interesting
you miss alot of the very very high price from your friends why dont you show them to us?? IsoAcoustics???? were are they my friend???
Don't like iso Acoustics for me. Fine for other people
So Isoacoustics Gaya and Orea bad?
I Dont know ..
Lol, precisely, you do not know. I think that tells me all I need to know.
A spongee-ass thing you put on the bottom that makes everything spongee?...Yikes!
LOL, yup.
I think he has a brain of sponge maybe. Preposterous that u even think that it makes even one iota of difference. But, you know, a fool parts with his money. Bionic ears maybe.