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)
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Showing 2 responses by megasam

Hey, speaking of tweak freaks, yes I love those little vibrapods and keep many of each size around. I find best application is not vibrapod sandwich but direct contact of
vibrapod against component body, I never remove existing feet or use under component feet. You usually need more height clearance so go to local home improvement center and get black 4x4 bath tile to set under vibrapod to gain another 1/4" this is usually enough to clear component feet.

If component is irregular shape or very high clearance you need vibrapod sandwich, set component on shelf material of your choosing and vibrapods under this.

I do recommend experimenting with pods under speakers, can be very beneficial in many ways, but also can produce too much bass response depending on speakers and type of music listened to, there are past threads that go into this in much more detail please check them out.

Red and Trelja I'm sure are checking in from time to time,
but after a while you burn out answering the same questions over and over, I much rather listen to music than be tweaking or constantly evaluting cables etc.
I don't currently own any nueance shelves (had some symposium shelves), but I got a good idea for cheap tweak from one of Ken's discussions. In stead of using upturned cones under shelves in audio rack (which can be expensive for 16 or more and may raise shelf too high) go to hardware plumbing section of home improvement store. There you will find nuts with round dome top, they have an italian name, just buy several large ones for @25 cents each and use in place of cones. Very stable and raise shelf height 1/2" or less.

Components can then be vibrapodded on these isolated shelves in rack.