WHAT HAS WORKED FOR YOU? ISOLATION PLATFORMS, FOOTERS, ETC. for a DAC?
Get some Herbies isolation feet and try it they are inexpencive and worth the money. http://herbiesaudiolab.net/index.htm i mean $14 each get three and try it not alot of money waisted if you don’t like them and that will eliminat a majority of this type of isolation systems out there regardless of how other companies dress them up and charge more. thier record mat is fantastic by the way |
One of my fav DIY isolation projects is bungee cords suspended from an aluminum frame (it could be a wood frame, too). By angling the bungee cords - one to each corner of a maple plate - you can effectively isolate in almost all 6 directions of interest. I built one of these babies for a DVD player but it could be for just about anything. Select the stiffness of the bungee cords based on the load. I got my aluminum frame at a junk metal place. Easy as pie. |
Hey Geoff, as a ceiling is no more free from seismic vibration than is a wooden floor, what about this?: Build a structure that sits on the floor (like the frame of a children's swing set, except with two parallel top rods or beams), from which a shelf is suspended on bungee cords, the turntable sitting on the shelf. I realize the cords should be as "soft" as possible, for the lowest resonant frequency and therefore greatest isolation. I don't think I want to drill holes in my ceiling for eyebolts, hoping to hit a 2 X 6 behind the sheetrock! |
I have a relatively heavy DAC that is very sensitive to treatment (Ayazi) and after extensive testing with cones, stillpoints, etc, I finally ended up with 2 magnetic levitation (maglev) & one alu cone. The one maglev is under the transformer, the other more or less balances the chassis & the cone keeps it from tipping. Results: clarity and dynamics, especially clarity. Please note that my rack has suspended shelves as detailed above and the shelves are Neuance. Good luck! |
