Vibrapods: How can something this cheap be this good?

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Still, the primary use for the Vibrapods isn't under turntables, but under electronic equipment. Frankly, I had never given much thought to eliminating vibration from an electronic component, basically believing that to do so was unnecessary.. I couldn't have been any more wrong.

Proper mechanical isolation can definitely be helpful. I've used a massive VPI HW-2 isolation platform with turntables for nearly thirty years. I use Ceraball roller bearing isolators with the CDP and Vibrapods with the tube preamp. While not as effective, an inexpensive DIY isolation solution is using squash balls cut in half. I use this cheap solution on players in the garage and HT.

If you want to go all out, a reviewer friend evaluated a pair of Halcyonics platforms for a while. One was used under the turntable (until he got the 800 lb Clearaudio unit) and the other under an EMM Labs SACD player. These devices were originally designed for use with sensitive devices like scanning electron microscopes, but do a dandy job on audio gear, too. Here is an unrelated review that describes the device.

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