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Ceramic insulator cone under phono stage shocker!

I have used small ceramic insulator cones underneath my phono stage for quite some time.
Previous phono was a Gold note ph10 and it did not make ANY audible difference I could detect which way up the cones were so I had left them cone upwards.

When I changed my phono to a Manley Chinook I just left the cones same way.
This afternoon I decided to flip them over so cone down just to see.

I honestly could not and cannot believe the difference!
I may have lost a smidge of low bass but everywhere else is improved in spades.
Much more detail, resolution, air, imaging, dynamics.
Just completely shocking how much better a small change has made.

But I am perplexed why such a huge change on the Chinook where I noted nothing on the ph10?

Any theories here?
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slaw
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Thanks @david_ten 

I own some HFTs to level 2. I have currently felt going further with these in my well treated room may not be the best use of money right now. I am impressed with what I heard thus far. I appreciate your feedback.
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I hate to judge too harshly but it certainly seems, just reading what’s on their web site, that they don’t know the difference between damping and grounding and isolation. At a minimum, it’s a little loosey-goosey, to use the technical term.
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@david_ten ,

Well it seems to be a lot about "tuning" doesn’t it? Of coarse, and correct me if I'm wrong, but here we're talking about using the MIGs inside a system that has been properly decoupled from it's environment?
david_ten
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@slaw Yes. : ) The MIGs are a solution, one among many. My response was generic. If someone has them, or can borrow them, they are worth experimenting with. I find they have subtle effects on top of component chassis, as well. 
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