Electronics Isolation.

Nothing on my electronics, other than my DAC which came with some Ravioli feet. Everything sits on and in two horizontally stacked Ikea Besta units though, which no doubt provide some isolation. I also fitted eight castor wheels to the bottom unit for ease of access. My speakers sit on large Sorbothane domes as recommended by someone who'd had the same speakers. They do sound better with them.

I've placed a bamboo chopping board with rubber bumpers onto the glass shelf of my stand. Then I've put stillpoints between the chopping board the the Eversolo feet. Listening for 3hrs this morning, and without a direct A-B comparison, the bass is the first thing you notice, tighter and more forceful, is there more of a flow to the music, maybe. Later or tomorrow I will do a direct comparison with the stillpoints as they are now and placing them directly under the base of the Eversolo.   My brother's stillpoints go directly underneath his dac to the heaviest part of the unit.

Just to add my 2c of experience here (although obviously nowhere near the lengths others have gone to in this field).

I've tried some sorbothane pucks, wood, metal, some slightly sprung ones (cheap) as well as wooden chopping boards on various supports as well as granite ones.

I have managed to accentuate certain frequencies which can be a useful tuning method if the system requires it for whatever reason.

I don't believe any of these tweaks revealed any more detail but possibly gave that impression by removing another part of the frequency, usually bass.


I've always come back to just having my equipment sat on solid wooden shelves using sorbothane feet underneath them.

My main point would be that glass, sounds awful under any circumstances. That may just be my experience but I would just never use glass shelves for hifi, to my ears it really does have a detrimental effect.


Heavy wooden rack is an easy conclusion for me, if a component (DAC etc) does seem to benefit from having a small weight put on top if only to negate the pulling pressure from heavy cable tension etc.


I'm sure there are better solutions with sprung shelves and 'tuned' supports but as stated above my advice if not wanting to spend much would be wooden shelves, appropriately sized sorbothane feet under equipment and possibly a small weight on top of components.


For me this preserves the majority of the frequency range.

Well after exhaustive listening tests   I've settled on Stillpoints under the feet of the Eversolo A8.  The feet are metal with thin rubber pads underneath, I was unsure how this would affect the Stillpoints, but definitely sounding very easy to listen to without being forward.

Next up will be the dac filters and then a bake-off with the Soekris.  

Any hopes I had of Audite isolation platforms being more cost effective than Townshend have gone. Not surprised really, looks like quite an involved and sophisticated system. My Ektas are 37 cm deep, so Phaenon 2 or Townshend Podium 2 needed.
Ouch.

Well after many years of isopucks under the tannoys . i am going try aperta 300 stands . these can be angled and seem very good vfm

hifinutt A pair will cost you nearly £320. Do your Tannoys need tilting?

aperta 300 arrived today so they will be going under the tannoys soon , see if any better than standard pucks

ah only cost 160 inc postage for s/h pair . having just paid a shedload for some architects my pocket is feeling very bare indeed !!!

Tell me about it. Thought I had a good tip the other day, 'On top form, lively in the gallops.'

Put a ten on  it to win, the bloody donkey came in 8th out of 9. 

hifinutt Where exactly will the iso 76's go with the Aperta under the speakers Phil?

hifinutt I thought the Aperta stands were to replace your wooden ones, if you are keeping the wooden stands were are the Aperta's going?

popped some aperta 300 under the eatons today and some iso puck 76 in the base . we`ll see if an improvement . it has raised the level by about 8cm so that complicates trying to see if an improvement . defo more wobbly than before but not excessive 

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Sounds like you're talking yourself into those improvements Phil.  

Seriously, if you replaced the Aperta with rubber bumpers would you notice any difference since you have your Iso's under the stand?