[PumaCat]

Hey gang,
Today Danny and Ron Brenay of New Record Day just posted two excellent video interviews with Norm Varney of A/V Roomservice discussing the importance of room and floor-borne vibration on the audio quality of high-fidelity systems and how the A/V Roomservice EVPs can really help to manage this imparted vibration to improve your system's overall audio quality.

Both of these interviews are excellent and informative. Highly recommend you watch them both. i'd recommend starting with Ron's and then watch Danny's as the follow-on interview.

Ron's interview: https://youtu.be/7JmXXrIoJb8?si=1JHWW4VMO4DSjlZ5

Danny's interview: https://youtu.be/FrN9kFputwQ?si=gsn4FfHteCis__nu

I use Norm's EVPs in my system and can attest first-hand to how well they work and how effective they are in quieting down your listening room. If you'd like to see some actual data as to how effective EVPs are in reducing imparted vibration, just let me know and I'll post some data from an experiment I did a few years back with the EVPs under my DAC.

Cheers and enjoy, guys.

[Danny Richie]

Thanks for adding the links. Those impromptu interviews turned out really well.

[EkW]

About to watch the interviews, but I already have evps under my speakers and turntable. They are very effective. Spikes just set the surface on which the spikes sit to vibrating. My floor just turns into a drum. Found that isolation is less critical for Danny’s servo subs.

[PumaCat]

Thanks for adding the links. Those impromptu interviews turned out really well.

You’re very welcome, Danny. And thanks again for the informative and educational videos you put up on your YT channel. Cheers.

[PumaCat]

About to watch the interviews, but I already have evps under my speakers and turntable. They are very effective. Spikes just set the surface on which the spikes sit to vibrating. My floor just turns into a drum. <SNIP>

Agreed. They're the most effective anti-vibration products I've used. Also agree on your comment about spikes. And, yes, floors can really vibrate, including slab floors.

For applications where using EVPs isn't possible,  e.g. under some speaker pedestals, I've used Threaded Stud Gliders from Herbie's Audio Labs to good effect as well. Used these under the pedestals of my Dynaudios and also the Resonant Woods Stands for my Harbeths. The fact they have a Teflon base makes it easy to slide the stands or pedestals around when positioning the speakers. 

Link here: https://shorturl.at/zdQTO

[jmimac351]

This link points to more info about AV Room Service.  A Stereophile article really caught my eye and in it Norm talks about his thinking for the right way to do it...

https://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=190313.msg1991004#msg1991004

Here is the Stereophile article - checkout this NWAA labs facility... one of a kind and super cool. The scale reminds me of the Dynaudio Jupiter measurement facility: 

https://www.stereophile.com/content/nwaa-labs-measurement-beyond-atomic-level

[PumaCat]

This link points to more info about AV Room Service.  A Stereophile article really caught my eye and in it Norm talks about his thinking for the right way to do it...

https://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=190313.msg1991004#msg1991004

Here is the Stereophile article - checkout this NWAA labs facility... one of a kind and super cool. The scale reminds me of the Dynaudio Jupiter measurement facility: 

https://www.stereophile.com/content/nwaa-labs-measurement-beyond-atomic-level

Thanks for posting this, Jim. Very informative and helpful. 

Yep, Norm Varney, his expertise and his products are the real deal.

Was just chatting with a buddy about audio systems, and we were discussing that the 3 top-most important factors for creating an engaging and involving Hi-Fi audio system are:

1) Room Acoustics (which the EVPs can really help with as they really help to quiet the room)
2) Power Distribution, including power distribution and power cords
3) Ground-plane noise reduction

All the rest, source and amplification components, preamps, amps, and speakers are next, and a matter of, in my experience, "flavor to taste."

Some guys love tube gear and others solid-state. Some like box speakers and other guys prefer electrostatic panels or open-baffle. Many of us love Danny's speakers (and rightly so!) and some like Magicos.

All are wonderful, but....different.  IMHO, it's kinda like deciding which single-malt scotch you prefer. Lots of wonderful single-malts out there, but they're all a bit different from each other.

But even the best Esoteric Grandioso Supreme electronics or Magicos, however, can't fix sh*tty room acoustics or crap, noisy power distribution from the home's AC mains.

The key point being here is everyone's preferences for single-malt or electronics, speakers, etc are equally valid and to be respected. But, from being in this hobby all the years I have, I've learned the that those top three foundational elements listed above have to be in place to create and engaging and involving musical listening experience.

Cheers, guys, and as Hans Beekhuizen says, "Enjoy the music..."