Equipment Rack


Does it make sense to spend several thousands of dollars on a equipment rack, if Stillpoints are used under every component?
ricred1

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Every concept for footer or rack mentioned previous other than the post dated 7-21 are anisotropic in design or by nature. Multiple materials and speeds make for multiple refracted pathways. All materials have a resonance memory.. and shape is all part of this memory and its release. Using many materials with various shapes and boundaries predicts a varied attack and decay over a confused time frame.  The fix is in choosing the right  material and it's refracting shape. Talk about first reflection...it all starts with the materials and shapes you have chosen to set your audio components on..all those different wave fronts will create more interfering energy all within the component, your system and your room.  Multiple reflection points can be created before the first acoustic reflection point occurs.. prior to the first acoustic wave launched from your speaker reaches the the nearest room boundary. The fix is in the chosen material and it's refracting shape. The fewer parts the better..less gives you more music.  Remember isolation can only exist in the absence of matter..if you get the drift. Hey Cartman where would we be today without matter?  Tom. working with Star Sound Technologies
Ricred1

I sent you a message thru Audiogon. 
Most any answer would most likely generate another question which would be most efficient to answer in a phone conversation.

Thanks,
Tom

So these mechanical filters, how do they relieve a component of the on board self generated noise from transformers, motor drives,filter capacitors, wiring and really anything that is electrically or mechanically connected within the chassis This is all one circuit path so how do you suggest removing this interfering energy? Tom
Geoff,

Let me get to our 'Point...

The opinions of the engineers who have worked on this study throughout our history stated all along that the geometry governing the tip of the Audio Point rejected low frequency from the floor surface. Our newest  associate in science flew in for a meeting to fully see what we were doing as she found our design for the mechanical grounding of musical instruments on the web and thought the two of us might be sharing on an infringement with regards to each other’s patents and methods.

She brought her product with her in order to make comparisons. Interesting in that our products were two totally different concepts but arrived at near the same listening result. She noticed the Star Sound Sistrum Platforms, Audio Points and the new Platter Ground and commented on their geometry and the fact that the tip was shaped at angles that would reject low frequency attempting to pass up through the point tip. I asked her how she knew this? She said it was common knowledge in her field of seismic science that this shape was a mechanical diode.

Rather than commit additional time is searching what was known to be common knowledge in seismology which is not our number one topic of research or understanding, we decided as a group to compare more information. Shortly thereafter all the members from each company chose to combine efforts and share in the acquiring of additional Patents based on each technical approach to vibration management..

As for the handling of vibration and in your words “your low tech approaches” in dealing with vibration across all the various and numerous parts of the electronic component, we find them to be anisotropic (physics of unequal physical properties along different axes) in design and nature.

Since we are of the isotropic group (having physical properties that do not vary with direction) the limited two materials used in our designs provide higher speeds at which all energy being  transferred allows for greater management over time, speed and decay. These three physical effects provide the difference you hear in the performance and sound quality of our technology compared to all the rest.

Tom,
Star Sound Technologies


Hence creating motion artifacts and larger amounts of interfering energy within the component that is placed in "isolation" Tom
Geoff,

Please list and explain what specific wave form types your products are designed to encounter and deal with..People other than yourself may wish to be informed.

Thanks in advance. Tom
Geoff,

When a thunderstorm rocks and rolls thru the limestone creek bed outback I can't hear that noise thru my cello's body laying on the concrete floor. Nor when the train a mile away can be heard late at night and under some different atmosphere that has the same non effect. I have tried. What may be good science for living on a fault line or under the elevated sure faults up speaker and audio components when listening to music.

You and some others have built a better mouse trap, one that does not allow for an efficient method for the wave forms that are self generated within any electronic component or speaker to leave the chassis. You have become highly accomplished at isolating this self generated component noise within a metal container or wooden box so it can be left to contaminate the signal that is to follow. Self perpetuating noise pollution for sure. What you won't let in, won't let anything out either.

Tom
Are you referencing the velocity of sound thru a brick or its shear velocity. Of course that would depend on the size and dispersion of its various solids. Tom 
Geoff

There are waveforms and portions of waveforms that your methods do not account for but they do alter. Your methods directly eliminate portions of these waveforms that are crucial to how a speaker diaphragm works, operates and makes sound. It is all text book, you just haven't compiled the data. I thought you were much faster. Tom