We have two Vibration Control Systems, one for speakers and one for components.
Our speaker system has three elements: hefty brass footers under the speaker to efficiently drain vibration out of the speaker cabinet and down into its platform; a massive air-dried maple platform to receive and dissipate that vibration; and another set of brass footers under the platform for rigidly supporting everything above so that the speaker can't rock, even microscopically.
Our component system design differs in only one important respect: because components are not affected by slight rocking, instead of rigid brass footers under the maple we use Isoblocks as a tuned compliant suspension to isolate the platform from resonances in the shelf or furniture below.
Each of our three elements used alone will upgrade your sound. Used together as a system, they yield startling improvements in bass, midrange and treble. Our systems serve the above three functions of transferring, dissipating and isolating using three single purpose elements, each optimized for its one function. Vibration control components that combine transferring and damping vibration, or damping and isolating it, lead to compromised sound.
Hybrid isolation/coupling devices like Roller Blocks, IsoBearings, magnetic couplers, etc. purport to serve three essential functions—vibration transfer, vibration dissipation and external isolation—all in one convenient footer. Unfortunately, these all-in-one devices serve none of the three functions well. They change, perhaps even improve, sound a bit in one area, but with penalties in other areas, e.g better midrange detail but soggier bass, less edgy treble but slower, duller transients, etc.
