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We are going to focus today on the more affordable products and help you understand which might fit best for your system. So why is isolation important? If you enjoy sitting in front of your music system and getting that feeling of the artists being in the room with you, a very low system noise floor is one of the critical elements that can take your experience to a new level. Many of the companies making great gear go to great lengths to reduce noise within the components as they know how important this is to system performance. Some vibrations are airborne and some are coming up from the floor to your equipment. All of the components that touch the musical system are very sensitive to noise disrupting, damaging, and masking the intricate detail of the musical performance.
To prevent vibrations coming up from the floor into your gear, you need something to completely isolate them from external disturbances. HRS makes a full line of isolation bases and custom structures to hold the bases with patented technology using custom elastomer compounds and structural materials with unique properties to dissipate energy before it can reach your equipment. Designing the isolation system to work within a small weight range is something HRS discovered that allows their gear to do a better job than if they just had one model for all kinds of gear. This is why you will see many options on their bases and you can even later get them modified for a different weight range should your gear change drastically. For air borne vibration, you need to find a way to keep your gear from being susceptible to noise coming directly to the component through the air. HRS uses a combination of constrained layer damping feet under the equipment and constrained layer damping and mass loading plates on the top to make it less likely your gear will micro vibrate with the airwaves coming from your speakers.
The team at HRS uses some pretty serious test and analysis equipment along with rigorous listening tests during the design phase of every piece they make. All HRS equipment is made by experienced professionals in the US with all final assembly done by local craftsmen at their factory in Buffalo, NY. Let’s take a look at the products they produce for each category. The HRS line of products to reduce chassis noise consists of two parts, the Nimbus System and HRS damping plates. The Nimbus System is actually made up of two parts, the Nimbus Coupler and the Nimbus Spacer. The Nimbus Coupler is a special, high tack proprietary HRS polymer with very specific geometry, stiffness, and energy dissipation characteristics. This custom material was developed by Mike Latvis working with a Polymer Chemist he had worked with for 3 decades on many high performance noise related programs. After dozens of custom material trials and hundreds of listening tests, the Nimbus Coupler became a reality.
The next part of the HRS chassis noise reduction system is to use their damping plates on the top of your component. These plates come in black or silver to match your gear and are available in 3 sizes and two thicknesses. Once again, the question comes up as to how is the best way to go? The answer is, get the biggest plate that will not cover up any ventilation holes. We feel the DPII .7 inch thick models work really well and the thicker ones (DPX) provide even more noise reduction. The plinth uses a new constrained layer damping system HRS developed for the E1 and it's housed in a beautiful billet machined aircraft-quality aluminum front. The E1 then uses custom pressed resin fabric composite top and bottom plates coated with a highly scratch-resistant outside surface with special feet on the bottom to further reduce vibrations.
No matter which of these components you decide to try, they are designed to augment each other so you can’t go wrong starting with any of them. If you really enjoy sitting in front of your stereo system and being drawn into the music experience quickly, you are the type of listener that will appreciate the improvements these HRS products can offer. The only drawback is that they are addictive, once you hear the improvement, you will likely want more!
27 сен 2020
