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Herbie's Under Glass

Posted by mcbuddah on May 13, 2013 at 20:55:15:
Has anyone experimented with damping materials or feet under your TV set? I've been buying a lot of used footers and platforms, etc. for all my components in my 2 channel system. I got a good package deal last week on a bunch of Herbie's stuff, which I had never used before, and had 3 Tender Feet leftover. Just for kicks, I got it into my head to try them under the cheap plastic oval base my 5 year old, 80#. 52" LG plasma set came with. I figured that this was probably the crappiest physical support of any piece of electronics I own and maybe it could use a little help. The result was a pretty substantial increase in the detail level and especially the vividness of colors. A good example is the period costume artistry showcased on several mini-series currently running. The richly colored and ornamented royal wardrobes worn by several of the wannabe kings of Westeros, Medieval Florence and Rome are so real I want to reach out and touch them. Another thing that struck me was how much more detail and varieties of smoke are viewed, such as an army encampment where hundreds of fires produce feathery, billowing, misty, smoke in infinite shades of black and gray. The already excellent velvety black is even smoother and blacker. On the negative side, all the new detail clarity really can show performers blemishes and wrinkles.

I'd like to know if anyone else has gone down this path before on TV resonance, vibration and RFI/EMI control to the same degree of fanaticism that 2 channel has been getting. If you have tried anything else that works, what was it? I would like to put it on 3 Bearpaws on a maple platform supported by Mapleshade Iso pads, but all that weight supported in just the middle would be shakey - maybe dangerous since one of my dogs watches TV and tries to jump into the screen when dogs are on camera. The Herbies stuff compressed a lot due to the weight - they are not the heavy duty ones.