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.
You gotta keep separate what you THINK is realistically possible to be detectable, and what is THEORETICALLY possible. If it is theoretically possible, then it cannot be dismissed outright. Usually when the surprise arrives at the sceptics doorstep he conveniently forgets about all his "its soooo unlikely" and "it's impossible".. Bits are bits. Oh, jitter.. Didn't think about that.. A safe way to never make any progress is to always dismiss things that are not establised yet -regardless of theoretical possibility, and even disregarding that today's theoretical fundations might be incomplete. Just look back in history at the massive nay-saying that have surrounded pretty much all new development. BTW, isn't it funny how "objectivists" get worked up about differences in specs down to -140 dB noise floor, and yet can dismiss external influences from vibration, electrical fields, etc? Do these people have any idea what sort of magnitudes these figures represent? -- P Floding No, I didn't ABX it. And I won't even if you ask me. (Especially not if you ask me.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ P Floding's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2932 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32466 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
