Critical Mass Center Stage 2

Mike

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How many days are you into them being placed under your components?
 
Mike
I have been half following these devices on another site. Keep me posted on what you think.

I had mixed performance with Stillpoints and wondered how well these work. I hear they take a long time to settle in.
 
mep said:
How many days are you into them being placed under your components?
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I just put them under the gear today. The equipment will be left on and Joe says it takes two weeks for them to break in. I asked why any break in was needed and was given a long technical explanation and a run down of the material science.
 
steinkrieg said:
what is the pricing?
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$320 for the 0.8
$445 for the 1.0
$695 for the 1.5

The numbers just mean height. Buy the ones that will just barely get your component off the shelf. Remember, they go under the chassis, not the feet.
 
Mike said:
$320 for the 0.8
$445 for the 1.0
$695 for the 1.5

The numbers just mean height. Buy the ones that will just barely get your component off the shelf. Remember, they go under the chassis, not the feet.
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Those prices are for each foot. So is your system sucking now? It’s supposed to take at least 10 days before your system stops sucking and you enter the promised land of “immersion.”
 
mep said:
Those prices are for each foot. So is your system sucking now? It’s supposed to take at least 10 days before your system stops sucking and you enter the promised land of “immersion.”
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Not at all. We will see tomorrow.
 
I installed these in the MBL system room. Listened right away, heard a small, but noticeable difference. Then, didn’t listen for a week. I didn’t want my ears to get “adjusted” or accustomed to the difference. I wanted to listen only at specific times.

I then went back, System is playing, listened after a week, the system sounded awful. Just awful. This was “expected”. Then, another week goes by and again I didn’t sit down and listen until today. The sound? OMG. What the hell is in these things? Layering upon layering. The bass!!! Just amazing and those who know me, know the voodoo drives me nuts. But the CM folks are right, after two weeks: holy sh!t.

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would be really curious to give these a try. i read somewhere that cyrill hammer at soulution speaks highly of the cms racks
 
I got 3 sets of the .8s. They're great. Improved several things - the size of soundstage, the continuousness of it, and best of all, everything on the soundstage is more 3D with better attack and decay.
 
I’ve heard only great things about these isolation footers. They must be the real deal. This is the first time I’m actually tempted to purchase an isolation device. There has always been other higher priorities in my system.

Ken
 
As to "Where first?", Joe L. says source components first, then linestage, then amps. My commments above applied to a ARC Ref10 phono, ARC Ref 40 and SACD player. I don't have any under the ARCs' power supplies although they too should benefit.

Interestingly, my heavily modified Sansui tuner sounds noticeably better playing (with no footers) since there is something under the preamp.

Like many of you, I was intrigued by all the hoopla over these. I wasn't really expecting too much. They improved most of the minor / nitpicky deficiencies in my system that bothered me with no audible downside that I can hear now. Oh, you do get used to the improvements over time, so they are not quite so striking later on. Not a criticism - just like any other upgrades you make to your system.
 
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