Silent Feet Basic – Decoupling / Damping Equipment Feet
No matter how high the quality of your audiophile equipment: if it is fitted with really well-conceived feet, this will enhance your sound with a much greater amount of peace and harmony. Thus considerably enhancing your enjoyment as a listener.
Silent Feet Basic – Decoupling / Damping Equipment Feet
No matter how high the quality of your audiophile equipment: if it is fitted with really well-conceived feet, this will enhance your sound with a much greater amount of peace and harmony. Thus considerably enhancing your enjoyment as a listener.
That is why the process of creating a new design for our Silent Feet Basic range of feet for equipment focussed on achieving just the right balance of decoupling and damping. One aspect that has a decisive influence, if your precious hi-fi gems are to realise their true sound potential, is their own resonant frequency.
The Silent Feet Basic interior design, with its multi-layered construction, allows the factors above to be precisely adjusted in proportion to the weight of the equipment. Both variations (20 kg- and 20 kg+) ensure what is virtually a custom-made improvement in the results. Whether the equipment itself has rounded feet or spiked feet, Silent Feet Basic will provide it with a stable basis on which to rest. The built-in thread even allows for the equipment and feet to be screwed together. The shape and the surface of the latest Silent Feet Basic generation make them a real pleasure in the eye of the listening connoisseur, too.
Specifications
Dimensions: 50mm diameter x 24mm height
Finishes: Polished stainless steel, stainless steel matt, black matt
Maximum equipment load: 0-20kg per foot (version -20), 20-60kg per foot (version 20+)
“Thixar’s ideas seem to work well and both the Silence Plus and the Eliminator appear to have a positive effect on the final sound of a system that includes them. The feeling the listener gets is that there is a quite significant improvement, especially if one has high expectations from a system and is willing to look for the details. Based on these, both products are of particular interest and should be thoroughly tried-out because they can prove to be decisive investments!.” – Tan Te
Hi Jeandre
I think the quickest way of summarizing the effects of the Thixar vibration control devices (Thixar Silence PLUS, Thixar Eliminator, Thixar Silence Feet Basic) is – they bring the best of ‘valve’ to my system!
Greater tonal depth, liquidity, and reducing most of the remaining ‘digital’ symptoms (hardness in the highs, forward but slightly etched and bleached, lack of specificity in sound staging). To be truthful, I never recognized that my system had these issues until I heard they were so reduced! My system is much easier to listen to now – and much more emotionally engaging. Plus, extra ‘hi fi’ benefits such as a lower noise floor, more details (but better integrated into the whole).
Just as reviewed, I found the effectiveness to increase as one went from Eliminator to Silent Feet, to Silence Plus platforms. The feet are the only such devices that add effectiveness to my GPA carbon shelves (most make sound worse, e.g. Stillpoints). The Thixar platforms straight onto the shelves transform my Devialets!
Review notes by D Anciano – August 2017