Originally Posted by Ian
At the application level.....Ian's very long quote

I thought much the same here.
My TS's are rack mount versions and located in the basement.
So here is what I have observed with 2 Sooloos systems in 2 houses.
I've rack mounted the TS, set in on a shelf in my rack, and put Aurios Pros under the TS on the shelf.
The rack mounted TS sounds worst. Flat, no dynamics
The placing the TS on a shelf in the rack sounds better.
Placing the Pros under the TS on the same shelf yields dramatic results
The Aurios isolated TS sounds best, by a wide margin. The has been repeated in both systems.
I feel the isolated TS keeps micro vibrations from affecting the arms reading the data off the hard drive platters. Hard drive jitter?? I don't know and this is just a guess.
As far as the MS600 goes, I think I'll put a VPI brick or 2 on it and see if the weight on top, like the reviewer found, does anything. But, maybe putting the MD600 on top of the MS600 in the review system actually damped the hard drives rather than the MS600 as it is assumed?
Who knows....

Last edited by ncpl; 2012-05-29 08:26. Reason: to cut the quote down a bit