Every digital device is very susceptible to vibration (more about this in the Blog), so minimising vibration in digital audio components such as: CD players, DACs, streamers, master clocks is of primary importance.
Lamp electronics are also highly susceptible to external sources of vibration. Fluctuations of the anode grid under the influence of external vibrations cause harmonics to layer on the useful audio signal, which is a distortion of the sound picture.
The transformer in the power supply produces vibrations during operation as it passes alternating electric current through it and the magnetic field changes its direction twice per phase. These vibrations enter semiconductor components, transistors, crystal oscillators, radio lamps and change their modes of operation.
Vibration also arrives at components with airborne vibrations, flooring vibrations, and seismic vibrations. For isolation of audio components Knecht Audio offers FootEcht isolation supports. The design of the support has 6 degrees of freedom, which allows to effectively isolate the turntable from vibrations transmitted through the support surface.
To minimise vibrations of the audio components themselves, Knecht Audio offers DampEcht series damping devices that absorb vibrations from internal and external sources. The operating modes of audio components are not disturbed in vibration-free conditions and the quality of the sound picture and the realism of sound images increases.
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