Townshend Springs under Speakers

The Star Sound Apprentice platforms have provided those similar results in my audio system. The effect is as if the speakers disappeared in my room. I think it is fair to conclude that both products get the job done exceptionally well. I don’t believe that one product/solution has to be denigrated in order to support the other. Both can coexist and be excellent choices.
Charles

@charels1dad, I concur with every point. Excellent post.

Have owned both Sistrum and Townshend platforms, although in different systems with different loudspeakers.

The Sistrum supports in my system did two things that were easy to hear immediately, Focus of individual voices and instruments, which I thought was already very good improved noticeably. The other great improvement was, as Charles and tvad noted, the speakers disappear as sources of sound. My speakers are big boxes like yours Charles, although they're a lot wider, so that was quite a feat. 

FWIW:  for the heck of it I tried the Nobsound (actually a similar product)under my CJ tube amps, my CJ pre amp, and also tried the Isoacoustics pucks under both.    My tube amps were on a sprung wood floor.


No difference in sound at all.

grannyring-

Well I have owned the Star Sound Sistrum and Townshend Pod products and have heard first hand the differences each approach has to the resulting sound. Speakers on a hard wood floor with crawl space under the house. The Star Sound Sistrum platforms were great. They tended to spotlight the highs and upper mids while speeding up and tightening the bass. Improved focus and inner detail. Less blurring of massed instruments.

The Townshend Pod products removed noise and made the music sound much more at ease and enjoyable. More natural if you will. They made the music more fun to listen to in my experience. That is how I experienced both methods of “isolation”. Just my experience and I realize this topic is more complex than my singular experience.

That is what I would expect just by looking at them. You’re a qualified reviewer in my book so there you go. If they want another one they are welcome to go ahead and send a set my way.

I don’t believe that one product/solution has to be denigrated in order to support the other.

+1 - Unfortunately that's not the way some folks on here decide to roll.  It seems that someone always has to be right at the expense of others who are targeted as being "wrong".  I so much appreciate your voice of reason, maturity and sanity @charles1dad