Vibration - What are the Main Sources?


A current thread discussing the best tweaks gave consistently high ranking for component isolation. I am curious to know where all the vibration is coming from that we are addressing with isolation. I understand that high volume listening can create significant vibration, but for the sake of this discussion let's assume we are listening at moderate levels. Can the vibrations from moderate sound levels affect the quality of sound? Are there other common significant sources of vibration that we are guarding against that can dramatically affect sound?
zlone
It’s sad that a topic worth discussing gets sidelined by the same few posters.
What a patently silly thing to say, unless you’re in a certain someone’s corner who always starts these fights.
That, and didn't you get the memo to stay on topic?


@perki
I kinda want this :)
Minus K

Yes, it's probably the superior passive isolation money can buy. I was also looking into it for myself, and it's really really expensive. I just can't (at the moment) work out how to justify the cost, make it look good and have it work with my stand mount speakers. But yeah, excellent products.

@nonoise - yeah, you're allright mate. I was a bit rude, I regret it now. Apologies.

Yes everything vibrates. But some will gladly play others by stoking fear and uncertainty. Including fear that some undetected vibration will negatively impact some audiophile’s sound. Once a fear of some problem exists you can then sell some expensive esoteric fix that nobody would care about otherwise. It’s how these things work. Marketing is all a game you know.
@mapman
Well the real issue here I take with that comment is that I have actually heard isolation done well, and you can choose to ignore the technology, however it damned well works.

I couldn't care less what brand is used. I do care that such a relevant advancement in the resolution and enjoyment for others would be stifled by misinformation based upon +30 year old ideologies.

And there's more advancement to be used in conjunction with broad frequency isolation, namely, tuned mass dampers. Stick to your guns, but don't mind those of us who are still going to tell you, that you are not correct.

Broad frequency isolation used on traditional speaker enclosures will absolutely improve the resolution of the loud speaker. And it helps with the structure the speakers are played within as well, the substrate, the walls, the component stands.

You are already enjoying broad frequency isolation when you are either a passenger or driving an automobile, perhaps it's time to move forward with your sound too? And even if not, hopefully others will at least discover for themselves that unfortunately, in the particular case, you are simply not correct.
@rixthetrick 
Oh yeah, not very attractive looking, nor very user friendly according to the review I read. And, $$$’s…

Pencil, paper, some tools, some parts and a bit of wood…


Okay everybody,

You all are much smarter than me.

The isolation springs for speakers baffle me as an improvement in sound.

We go through all of the effort to get the speakers in the correct place - distance to front wall, distance to side walls, distance between tweeters, distance to back wall, bass traps, tweeter absorbers, etc.

Then we decide that having the speaker move improves the sound.

Please explain what I am missing. The only thing that comes to mind it that some thing else must be moving, too?

Thanks for listening,

Dsper
@rixthetrick, no worries as I wasn't offended at all. I just didn't understand where you were coming from. No biggie.

All the best,
Nonoise