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Feet/ footers: Cones, pads, rubber gizmos, fancy gizmos, roller gizmos

Aside from the shelving stuff, what do you add under your equipment feet?  
Nothing?  
Hard cones.. metal. wood.. with under disc, right into shelf?  
Soft footers. pads, half domes.. sorbothane...    ?  
fancy aftermarket footers?   Brass...    ? 
Roller devices?  
Added butcher block rests...  thck thin, IKEA... ?Other?   
I have used all sorts of stuff under my equipment. My favorite go to are size ten butyl rubber bottle stoppers, then under really heavy stuff, old Tip Toes, and under some things sorbothane half domes. But no expensive doodads.   
I have recently tried some home made rollers, no improvement to negative results. 
Mostly I like some vibration dampening.. hard connections seem to go negative on quality of the sound   
So I am just thinking about feet. footers. What are your experiences with them?
elizabeth

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@uberwaltz 

I agree in that every situation is unique and experimenting goes a long way.  What you described the Herbies products under the rubber footers is a "neutral" coupling interface that I've heard works well too sometimes.
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Place them directly in contact with the underside of the component.

@millercarbon Exactly!


I've been recently using the Symposium Precision Couplers in this way.  The soft footers obstruct coupling of the component chassis to the shelf.  These things aren't crazy expensive either and I believe retail at $35 each.
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One of my better tweaks has been to use Symposium Precision Couplers in direct contact with the metal chassis of my tube amp, coupled to a Symposium Ultraplatform.  Definitely not a "soft" solution as the couplers are constructed from 7075 aircraft aluminum (hard than some steels).  
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