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In the Thread: Mastodont DIY Rack: Wall Mount?
Post Subject: Observe the sound… with your brain or ears?Posted by Romy the Cat on: 12/4/2013
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 N-set wrote:
Rings=poorely damped, due to its crystaline structure. Take a granite tile with two fingers, put your ear close to it and knuckle. Observe the sound.
Repeat with other stones to compare. For that reason it's neither used in nanolabs anymore (see e.g. the Newport link)
nor in, say, billiard tables, not ot mention TT plinths. But looks good on graveyards

N-set and others…

Even I do not disagree with all that you writhe here generally and on the subject in particularly but I would like to remind you that all your comment about racks, suspension, desolation and everything else do not have direct correlation with sound. It might have but it also might not have.  I certainly do not want to diminish the value and the efforts you spend on your rack and it is very good project but the relation between the auditable benefits and purely intellectual investment you made into your rack is not so simple. Your complain about granite is a good example of it.

I am with you and I do not like granite. I do not think that it rings, come on get real. It in my experience adds some “coldness” to sound but only in some cases, in other cases it does not. I spent a lot of time listening shelves, equipment, chassis’, isolators, platforms, suspenders and anything you only can only imagine with stethoscope and heard how different type of vibrations get propagated, absorbed, dissipated or consume by different surfaces. However, during all my experiments I was not able to observe the obvious correlation between the quietest chassis and better sound. It was always case by case and in some circumstances it were absolutely absurd results. If I tell you that I know one DAC with which I was able to put the cone under and by moving the cone with 1-2 inch I was able to attenuate HF response within 2dB then you will tell me that I am a fool of it. Well, I demonstrated it to one famous industry person and it in fact very true story.

So, what I am saying is that all that we do and discuss about the subject has only intellectual stimulation. What we say/do on the subject is not wrong but it is not sufficient to be right. The rightness comes from the actual Sound we accomplish and it is not always Copley with your best intellectual objective and methods. Sometimes, live, ringy and shaky platform sound the best in this or that applications and all theories need to be set aside. I do not know the answer but I think not to have precompiled answers is the best approach.
 

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