Quote Originally Posted by frenchmon View Post
Feanor ....My rig is in the basement, on concrete floors which has carpet on top of that. So I don't have problems with footfalls, vibrations or anything like that. But about three years ago, I put some home made risers under my XRAY, TT and SACDP, lifted it up for kicks too see if it had any effect, and I instantly heard a great improvement. So just the mere lift gets better performance in stageing, better seperation, better highs , mids, and low's.

Impressive, frenchmon.

I did try isolation pad with my tube preamp but found they had no discernible effect. FWIW, what I used were Bright Star IsoNodes, HERE, from Audio Advisor.