Help. I need to raise my Linto about 1.5" (no Mana please). Cones? Footers?

Posted by: Jaybar on 01 July 2001

My CDP occupies the top shelf of my Zoethecus stand and the Linto one shelf below. This leave me with very little slack in my Ekos tonarearm cable. I ordered a Neuance shelf which fits into my SO wall shelf which raises the TT about an inch or so, this elimiunating whatever slack I have. Any suggestions for elevating my Linto about 1.5 inches. What cones might not muk-up the music?

Mana sound table would not work well with my Zoethecus rack and besides it would elevate things too much and cause clearance problems.

I could put my CDP on the second shelf and the linto on the top shelf, but that would mean a lot of bending down to load CD's. Any ideas for cones etc that might work well.

Posted on: 02 July 2001 by Peter Stockwell
JayBar,

I received the Russ Andrews catalogue that has a host of gizmos for paranoid audiophools. Among the various pointy things in that catalogue were some Oak cones, in various sizes. Not very expensive, about 25GBP. Then I was browsing in the DIY section of a parisian department store, BHV, and I came across some beach hemispsheres the small ones cost about a $1 and the big ones, not much more. I'm now using these under my TT and they do what I want them to do and for an outlay of roughly $3 you can hardly go wrong. The big ones would raise your Linto by about 4cm.

Peter

Posted on: 02 July 2001 by Jaybar
Can you explain?


Thanks

Jay

Posted on: 02 July 2001 by Peter Stockwell
Beech is a kind of tree, or wood if you will.

A hemisphere is a half sphere, or half of a ball if you prefer, so you can put the flat side under your component and the round side on the shelf. The contact area of a sphere is more than that of a point, because as the radius tends towards infinity then the surface of a sphere tends towards flat(Ask a mathematician for an explaination, I know how to count - can't do math), but is still pretty small.

Peter

Posted on: 02 July 2001 by Rob Doorack
Try a set of 3 Symposium Rollerblocks, they'll give you about an inch of height. If you need more height you could try the Double Stack configuration with a ball sandwiched between 2 Blocks. Be sure to get the optional tungsten carbide balls, they're noticeably superior to the standard steel balls.
Posted on: 02 July 2001 by Jaybar
Rob:

Read your review in Listener and can vouch for the Symposium Audio issolation devices. As good as they are, I was forced to move on from them. I have fairly poor eye-hand coodination and the balls would end up rolling around the apartment floor, with me swearing. Three times the equipment rolled off the shelf and onto the floor when trying to position the stuff. I was lucky it was the bottom sehlf as Spectral amps are NOT cheap.. I finally did get the equipment to erst satisfactorily. However, because of the cats jumping up, I had to weight it down with VPI bricks which changed the sound, big time for the worse.

I could have lived with all of that and gotten the stuff to stabalize, but I was driven NUTS. Every half-inch difference in the placement of the roller-blocks yielded different sound under my Spectral amp and pre-amp.After several months, I was worn to a Frazzle and gave up and started listening to MUSIC again.

I must admit, they did do wonders For different equipment, w/o jumping cats and with someone without my physical disabilities, I would recommend them beyond question.


I just got the Neuance shelf to replace my MDF shelf within my Sound Organization wall shelf. I seriously flirted with getting a Mana, but the wall holes and crossbars would have been in different places. This would have meant considerable painting/replastering and drilling. Since my walls are not sheetrock, but cinder block/concrete, drilling becomes a MAJOR hassle.

Getting back to the Rollerblocks, I strongly recommend them for others.


Jay