......and without the risk of (potentially) crocking my player![]()
I can just imagine one or both of may cats using it as a spring board

Let me know how you get on.......
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Will do

......and without the risk of (potentially) crocking my player![]()
Let me know how you get on.......
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Found these:
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=99692&highlight=
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=98576&highlight="isolation+platform"
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=69653&highlight="isolation+platform"
Sorbothane seems very well regarded.
I think when I priced it it seemed expensive
So where did you price it?
I bought 4 feet (not a 4 foot by 4 foot square sheet)from a show at £10, which I thougt seemed steep for 4 squares of moulded black rubber, but had to experiment another avenue of disbelief, and relatively cheap considering some of the other iso gear available, and now look where that £10 has lead
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i would have thought the perfect isolation would be a large U-frame with elastic bands hanging and holding a suspended shelf.
all this cones with ball bearings sounds nonsense as all it is doing is decoupling and not vibration absorbing
. Wood cones and a ball bearing for example will have the same resonant frequency as a spiked wooden rack.
Same materials, same result. .
The only things that'll work optimally under compression are a Vibraplane (including the DIY innertube method) and various density high-loss materials like Sorbothane.
If you've got the skills IMO the SME design or a variant of is the best option to have a tunable system.
ARe you sure of this?
Would it be a problem if it WAS so?
How many oak hifi racks do YOU know of??
Like I say the inner tube method didn't work for me....
AS Is ay its certain ly worth thinking about but my present view is that its an overly complex design. Prove mme wrong by all means!
So 'wood' has the same properties no matter what it is then?
No not at all but are you gaining anything ?
True, not many. Doesn't the furniture chap on the forum use solid oak ? There isn't anything special about oak though is there ?
I don't really like it either.
I'll make an add-on to my current rack for the turntable when I can get my motivation back.
I only finished my last rack two weeks ago![]()
Well obviously they vary in density. If those densities vary enough to have an audible effect on the resonant frequency of different hi-fi components I'm not so sure.
I do however think that on looks alone wood is by far the nicest material to make a hi-fi rack from.
not a bad idea...
again, there are security issues
no,
1) the oak cones absorb vibrations
2) the bass vibrate, thus dissipating the energies away.
Hi JCL,Well obviously they vary in density. If those densities vary enough to have an audible effect on the resonant frequency of different hi-fi components I'm not so sure.
I do however think that on looks alone wood is by far the nicest material to make a hi-fi rack from.
Hi David,
It's a softwood which, in thick enough chunks, works in a similar way to cork. Soaks up low level frequencies nicely. The down side is it's easily damaged and well, it's pine.
Another wood to try is Tulipwood, somewhere between a soft and hardwood.
Have fun!
Quick note....I just adjusted my iso platform sot that....from cd player down
blutak
granit slab
3/4 inch wood (oak i think)
anther granite slab
blutak
wooden frame as in pic....but with just one set of down ward facing cones, glued to the frame.
sounds ok, though I say myself.
Just stick the CD player on a solid surface. It will sound OK, though I say so myself.