snarlydwarf;178031 Wrote: > And it remains to be shown how vibration affects semiconductors.... or > even that it does. Which is why magical feet on a SB sound like > mysticism: on a turntable: absolutely 100% vibration matters -- the > tone arm is designed to pick up and amplify vibrations, so isolating > the turntable from the music is important (and gets more important the > more money you spend). And certainly with a tube amp, shaking it will > change the coil's position within the tube, so vibrations affecting the > output make perfect sense. > > But it isn't true that an IC upside down has different electrical > characteristics than one rightside up or sideways... > > That is why I would question whether ebony (or rubber, or whatever) > feet would have any effect at all on a SB. > > I fail to see how an ebony disc will change the electromagnetism, rf, > or anything else in a SB... last I checked wood was a pretty rotten > conductor and non-ferric. If the magic is moving the SB another 1/4" > away from the RF of the amp it is sitting on... then rubber, pine, > plastic or whatever feet would do.
I've read from a couple of engineering sources that certain types of capacitors can be microphonic... -- PhilNYC Sonic Spirits Inc. http://www.sonicspirits.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PhilNYC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=837 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32466 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
