Various Bearing Isolation Devices

As posted in mid July, I have been enjoying my Aurious under my SACD and Bel Canto Evo. Sold my Rosinante Dark Matter Shelves. I have a less obese Powersnake (Black Mamba) connected to the SACD. I first leveled the granite plate base sitting on top of the wood shelve in my cabinet, placed the SACD on the MIBs and check/readjusted the level. I then reconnected the Nirvana interconnect (stiff), tied a string loop around the ic and then connected the string loop to a thumb tack. I then counter balanced the force the ic imparts by enlarging/shorten the string loop length and angling the loop (the ic pushes the SACD out, the string loop pulls on the ic). Once the MIBs are recentered I locked the string loop in place with the thumb tack (there will be a few thumb tack holes in the wall from trail and error). I connected the mamba and repeated the same procedure performed for the ic until the MIBs are recentered. I also had to reposition the Black Mamba so the it can come straight out of the SACD. All time spent was well worth it.

Megasam, At first I tried the Aurious with the Rosinante Dark Matter Shelves, but the Auriuos was not leveled properly. This sounded good. In an effort to save money, I did my darnest to level my SACD player with the $500 Rosinante Shelve and on a $6 piece of granite tile. The net outcome was the MiBs w/ Rosinante wasn't any better that the granite tile. In fact, I seem to loose some of the low end bass output using the Rosinante. The Rosinante seems to add its own flavor (maybe it injects its own resonent frequency). Since vibration in the xy direction is 99% of the problem, there may not be a need the Rosinante Shelf. Besides I now have extra funds to squeeze more performance out of my system employing another tweak.