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Does anyone use wood for vibration control?

What kind of wood have you found to be best?
bksherm

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agriculturist
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Its probably true that wood vibrates.  Some less than others though, and purpleheart perhaps less than others.  And it may be that the resonance of wood is easier to live with than of other materials.  An excellent material for damping is something that Marigo is now fabricating. This is what they use for their IT platforms, i.e., isothermal platforms.  Not super cheap, but under my  upper range open speaker baffles they are extremely effective.  I believe Marigo suggests using this material for components is just as effective.
agriculturist
177 posts
 
Purpleheart and African Padauk are both excellent.  Both about equally hard and dense and heavy which I believe is key.  I have two inch thick bases which also is important.  The thicker the wood the better.  For small components like macmini, modem, power supply, tube traps etc I use even thicker (3 inch thick)  smaller blocks of wood of the needed size that were meant for wood turning or carving from EBay.  
agriculturist
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I'd agree with GeoffKait about set up.  The cones I use under the purpleheart and padauk bases are Golden Sound cones with squares.  And between my components and the wood bases I put springs that Geoff sells.  It's a set up (not the wood type itself, but the springs and cones) that Geoff recommends.  And I can say it all works very well. 

At a somewhat higher price point, the fabricated Marigo Isothermal platforms might be worth looking at.  As I said before they do work extremely well to steady up my speaker baffles.  I haven't tried them under electronics myself, but I am going to guess that they are very good for those too. 


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