Does anyone use wood for vibration control?


What kind of wood have you found to be best?
bksherm
Panzerholz. Delrin. These are the two relatively commonplace materials with very low resonance. Other materials are far behind.

Note the words ’low resonance’. That is the property of absorbing vibration so as to not ring.

Both panzerholz and delrin are costly, so you don’t see them used much. It is rather less costly to market the hell out of junk. Every material has its uses, but for a TT I mostly use panzerholz, as it has other properties of value, e.g. tensile strength.
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Hi Glupson & Perkri

You weren’t overlooked, I just wanted to see how far off track and topic things would get here before doing much more posting.

You are both on target here "unwanted" vibrations. As Glupson said "audio is vibration" and according to the Fundamental Interactions he is correct, there is no such thing as non-motion here on Earth. You can’t logically say "kill all vibrations" on a moving planet and it make sense. The Earth doesn’t stop spinning just because someone on an audio forum says so. That’s a little on the crazy side of things.

So here you have the audio signal, which is part language and part energy in motion. You have a legitimate change called volume. Volume is when you add energy to the signal. The energy itself is Vibratory. You can call it "put into motion" or "force" or several other names but Vibration covers the audio realm pretty well. Volume is an amplification of the vibration (audio signal) and when used all the Fundamental Interactions of physics also amplify and or interact. This is where the balancing act between interactions starts to play out in audio. When you increase Electrical, Mechanical and Acoustic energy the values of the new setting have to balance themselves out again. This is where you get either "true gain" or "distortion". True gain is an increase in the function of fundamental frequency and harmonics in balance (harmonic structure) that make up notes or band of notes. Distortion is when the fundamental frequency and support harmonics are out of balance. It can be too little vibratory structure or too much, either one is distortion. The fundamental interactions are what I call a "fair exchange" of energy.

Whenever something in Earth’s energy realm goes out of balance the 4 Fundamental Interactions (forces) go into action to put the fundamentals and supportive harmonics back into tune. The shape of being in-tune is a sphere. Reason being is a sphere can give off and take on energy exchanges with a natural vibratory interaction. It’s like a 3d oscillation or pulse. Without interacting force the Earth along with every planet or star would crack apart and loose it’s pattern. Just like when something is out-of-tune it means the supportive energy is out of balance with the fundamental cycle. The cycle out of balance is then called "distorted" or incomplete in motion.

MG

Audio & sound are cool because they fall right in the range of physical being, meaning the cycles are low enough as to move and stimulate physical materials. All the physical parts in your audio system are vibratory. As soon as these parts are energized they are not only passing signal but they are passing that signal along with their own vibratory DNA. For example take 2 capacitors of the same spec from 2 different companies or designs and they will sound different from each other. Anything that has mass in your audio chain has it's own vibratory signature added to the sonic mix. Doesn't matter how great or small it is acting just like our planet "giving out and taking on info". Your audio signal will not be separated from nature because it is here on Earth and subject to Earth's physical laws of interaction.

MG

Michael, you’ve convinced glubson. That’s gotta count for something. The other fellow doesn’t appear to be quite so convinced. Maybe invite him over to TuneLand and work him over a little bit. See if he’ll come around. 🤕

By the way, the Four Fundamental Interactions support my position, not yours. Hel-loo!