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Tweak worth 100X It's price - Vibrapods

While I WAS not a big beleiver in the "tweaks" of audio to a any appreciable extent, I must rave about the performance recieved form these littel rubber pods. I purchase a few a couple months ago to place under my electronics and I was extremely happy with the result from the pods in combination with soem MDF particle board placed under the equipment pods combination. Rather than go into extreme use of adjectives regarding the improvement that was expereinced, just let me say that EVERYTHING opend up and became better. I thought my system sounded good but this little, cheap tweak was eye (ear?) opening.

I was extrememly happy with the imrovement to my electronics and then I thought - Why not the speakers also? I bought and installed pods for each speaker and
installed them. This was "as big" if not a bigger improvememnt to overall sound. I was experiencing some bass control problems around the real low end. These problems were now gone along with all the other distortion that I was experiencing and really not even knowing it or knowing it and blaming it on "room colorations".

You have just got to try these things. At $6.00 a pop you can't go wrong. Plus you can get a discount for quantity purchases usually. You will need a minimum of 4 per compopnent. $24.00 bucks that will make your system sound like you just put $2,400.00 into it.

I am a personal user and this is not an ad but I got my pods, along with a plethora of help from CJAudio/Video through this (AudiogoN) site. (www.cjsaudvid.com) Craig will take good care of you.

Feel free to email me ([email protected]) if you have any questions / comments.

I can also send you a picture of the stands i built for the speakers to incorporate the pods / and the Legacy supplied spikes if interested.

Relevant System Info:

Processor: Aragon Soundstage
Amp: Aragon 8008BB
Speakers: Legacy Classics.
CD: Denon 5 disc carousel.
Interconnects: HT ProSilway II (Pre - Amp)
Monster Coax Digital (II) (CD- Pre)
mackpat

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bob_bundus
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any household cleaning spray & paper towel seems to remove that oily Vibrapod residue effectively with no artifacts
bob_bundus
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Mack many of us share your enthusiasm regarding Vibrapods. I am confused regarding your shelf setup though. You put the pods under the component & then the MDF shelf under the pods?
I have always used them the opposite way - that is:
Black Diamond shelf under the components (I do not remove the component's feet) then the (appropriate for weight) Vibrapods under the B.D. shelf.
For my CD source only, I also have B.D. #4 cones in between the player & the B.D. shelf. I have even been advised to now mass-load the player on top with some lead shot (placed into a black sock) or a thick piece of wood, but I haven't yet experimented in that regard.
So I always have a whole collection of different value pods on hand in case I want to try something else. I even have sets of #5's for under my speakers but haven't yet played with that either. These things are simply amazing & the price makes 'em even moreso.
bob_bundus
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Dekay are those pummice stones? They do seem rather brittle & I doubt would hold up well under a 50 pound component, but as you say should be fine under fleaweight stuff. I had forgotten about these & should check 'em out.
How do you setup your Neuance shelves? Sounds like you just place the Nuance shelf on top of your racks' ordinary shelf & then the component on top of that using the stock feet?
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