I am always reading about various isolation products. One can find cones made of metal or carbon. Their are hard metal/rubber/resin balls in cups. You can use solid heavy weight things like granite and marble, or softer materials like Sorbothane and other rubber like materials. I did hear of one isolation platform that uses ‘air’… well sort of uses air.
I’ve been a PC/Windows user since 1989, way back when you needed two people to lift some of those old IBM desktops, and storage came in 5″ floppy form. Flash forward to 2009, it’s time to add a media server to my audio/video setup, and I decided to go the easy way… which brings me to the new Apple Mac Mini!
When one talks of audio, and I intend to speak of ‘high-end’ audio, one must always bring to the discussion talk of cables and the necessity of cabling. Let me say now, that I am a convert of better cabling. That stuff that comes free is meant for the recycling bin, which brings me to a super fine upgrade, Wireworld Polaris 5 interconnect cable.
So I got me a Konnekt 8 to use as a digital S/PDIF converter for my Mac Mini. From the Mac Mini I use the Konnekt 8’s S/PDIF output to connect to my old Aragon D2A converter.