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Expensive table ,

And yet, if it was a "designer" display shelving system from Harrods or some such we would not know of it nor care a jot.

Personally I would either discard any component that was so susceptible to vibration or, in the case of a turntable, put it in another room.
 
I would imagine many here have spent much more over the years on hifi they no longer own.

Who is saying the thing eliminates vibration anyway, has anyone tested it, another utterly worthless piece of jewellery.
Mine cost me £15, as I said, cheapskate.
 
And yet, if it was a "designer" display shelving system from Harrods or some such we would not know of it nor care a jot.

A good point. Do we have an over-arching belief that "hifi must be cheap", and that anything that costs more than £X (choose your figure here), must by default be overpriced or foo?

Contrast:

"You've spend ten grand on the holiday of a lifetime? Wow, I bet you must have had a fabulous time!"

or

"You've spend ten grand on a hifi? Oh, I couldn't tell the difference"
 
A good point. Do we have an over-arching belief that "hifi must be cheap", and that anything that costs more than £X (choose your figure here), must by default be overpriced or foo?

Contrast:

"You've spend ten grand on the holiday of a lifetime? Wow, I bet you must have had a fabulous time!"

or

"You've spend ten grand on a hifi? Oh, I couldn't tell the difference"
I dunno about you, I'm pretty good on sussing the difference between a fortnight in the Okavango Delta and a week at Butlins in Skegness. I don't find the differences between a pair of S/H Mission 753's and some box fresh Harbeth 40.2's, whilst evident, quite so catastrophically polarising.
 

They're all at it - Monaco have just come out with a 'new' (four-legged rather than three) version of their modular table. 4 tier version, yours for about $30k

I shopped around secondhand for the original version and have two 4-tier stands - they're very nice, light, stackable and don't seem to 'sound' of anything at all; cost me about £2k for the lot. The new version, pro-rata, would be £50k. Might be open to good offers :)

Really, audio has gone insane - they spouted a lot of guff about 're-tooling costs' with incomprehensible promotional verbiage straight out of Pseud's Corner (there's some blurb in the Stereophile coverage of CES on it).
 
even though "a mechanical engineer and specialist in aerospace vibrational control and control systems", mass and stiffness alone do not guarantee immunity from vibrations.
 
even though "a mechanical engineer and specialist in aerospace vibrational control and control systems", mass and stiffness alone do not guarantee immunity from vibrations.

So to the point. The isolation will only be as good as the box that sit's on it. I would suggest that the moneys in the feet and the casing of the actual audio box, While I know that rack isolation is SO important, what's good for the goose may not be so great for the Gayndah correct?
 
even though "a mechanical engineer and specialist in aerospace vibrational control and control systems", mass and stiffness alone do not guarantee immunity from vibrations.

The cast concrete floor of my house weighs what? Has good stiffness and the tractors currently rumbling past my house are vibrating my bottom as I type this sorry just being facisious :cool:
 


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