Is a Symposium Platform an isolation platform?
Our platforms achieve a degree of isolation in the component by absorbing energy from two sources at once: from the component and from the support surface. Our platforms GROUND your component and give vibration that would otherwise be trapped inside of it a place to go, be dissipated as heat, and NOT be reflected back into your component (in either its original form, or a different, supposedly more benign one). You can think of our platforms as a kind of “sponge” for mechanical energy in the upper 8 out of 10 audible octaves- that is, from about the midbass (50-80 Hz or so) on up. These 8 octaves represent the lion’s share of musical information, and by far contain most of what is needed to recreate a sense of “realism” and faithfulness to the original performance. But the word “isolation” is overused in this field of audio, because strict “isolation” is not the answer to the larger problem which we need to address, which is vibration control. Mechanical vibration affects the sound pro
