30 years on...

OK, where do you live?

You can't prove that God doesn't exist, but that's far from saying that God must exist.

 

South East - just outside London.

Question. Grand Prix Audio claim similar energy dispertion characteristics for their racks. To prove this, they attach a meter to the rack and measure vibration scientifically. Why couldn't Mana have done that? Have you ever done it? If not try it, I suspect you will find the frequencies where it rings like a bell.

 

as far as I can see, any passive component cannot add anything to the sound. it can only take it away.

if the stand removes external rumble which would otherwise be heard through the speakers then as far as my definition of tonal balance goes then the lowest frequencies have been attenuated, thereby altering the tonal balance by reducing bass.

if, as others claim, the stand is projecting mid-range, it can only be doing so by reducing all the other frequencies. therefore it cannot be tonally neutral.

I don't own Mana, have never heard Mana, nor can I give a stuff about whether it is good/bad/ugly/indifferent/overpriced/bargain.

given that some people have put their TTs directly on their wooden floors after using Mana and claim it sounds no different, I have to wonder why there is such a polarisation regarding ugly angle-iron. the same isolation effect can be had by two slabs of concrete and a partially inflated bicyle inner tube.

 

better than the Ninja LP12 it replaced

 

A stand which failed to vibrate would be useless (and impossible). Mana is designed to vibrate, that's how it works.

 

are you sure you want to remove all that mana just to prove a point?

 

Enough said.

 

Now I've lost my coffee!

 

Galloping Gertie anyone?

 

What is Galloping Gertie?

 

and with testimonials like yours, there seems little to recommend prostrating myself at that alter, either.

 

I really don't mind what you do, Kenny.

 

http://www.nwrain.com/~newtsuit/recoveries/narrows/gg.htm

 

I don't see the relevance. I don't think you understand how a hi-fi stand can reduce vibration in a vibrating object placed upon it.

 

Dirty Gurtie from number 30, when she has the trotts??

 

nor do you.

 

wind him up and watch him go....

s'okay bub, remember mine was only a half ninja lol

 

A Ninjette?

 

a bimbo ninjette....

all the best bits of a hairy scary ninja but in a kinder, gentler package with added aloe vera

 

It's actually very simple. A inert (non-resonant) stand cannot possibly have vibrational energy transferred into it, since by definition, it cannot vibrate.

It's obviously impossible to construct such a stand.