After all the expensive gizmos I've read about, I went and did something on the cheap - maybe a stupid thing but at least I didn't spend more than $57
. I bought a 14" wide x 42" long x 2" thick piece of flat slate to put my equipment on (all Eastern Electric MiniMax - awesome by the way). This thing weighs well over 100 lbs
. I have it sitting on top of raquet balls, which sit on the floor
. I started out with eight and then started to insert extras to support heavier equipment and level the slab. I put a glass of water on the floor and pounded my fist next to the glass - of course the water rippled. I then put the glass of water on the slab balanced by raquet balls and again pounded my fist on the floor. Nothing - the water stayed dead calm. I actually had to pound my foot hard to get the water to just ripple a little bit. It's amazing, the slab actually floats on the raquet balls - they're not even glued to the slab. I can push the slab horizontally and it just gently glides back and forth and then damps itself to a stop. No movement vertically. Do I need to control the horizontal movement? How would speaker vibration or anything else generate horizontal movement in the floor?
So, is this what I'm looking for and the whole idea behind "isolating" the equipment?
Thanks,
Jim
