Recent sales experience has revealed that Audiophiles would choose an electronic component purchase over an accessory purchase. In retrospect I have witnessed greater performance upgrades replacing cables, isolation racks and room placement. Why do we think an electronic purchase will lead to greater gains than an accessory purchase?
As an avid Audiophile I suffered from the same dilemma, I would purchase new audio components regularly chasing the almighty ‘last upgrade’. The last upgrade never happened and I would study combinations and the next upgrade. The funny thing is my system would regularly seem to require tweaking and audio component purchases would soon follow.
My recommendation is look at the fundamentals of your audio system. Begin with your choice of audio dealer, are you receiving good advice? Next is your combination of audio equipment – do the brands complement each other? Your audio dealer should be able to help and advise you with this. Another area to investigate is -room layout, we find that moving your rack to the side and keeping the area in between and at the rear of your speaker’s free, produces the best results. Accessories are another area to explore- there are gains in everything and at a lower price than replacing amplifiers etc. Let’s talk more about accessories and the title of this blog ‘how can I upgrade my whole audio system with one purchase’. Audio isolation should not be considered an accessory but it is! When you think about it, all your audio equipment resides on your rack, what if you could upgrade every component at the same time with one purchase? By utilising a well designed isolation rack, you can achieve this and experience a huge upgrade. This will also provide a foundation for measuring any future changes to your system. The AG Lifter range of racks are a purchase forever and require no maintenance after installation. The open architecture of the AG Lifter rack is designed to connect visually in your listening space providing an aesthetically pleasing statement piece

​An often-repeated question from audiophiles is my system sounds harsh or bright, I don’t like this it ruins my listening experience.  Well, components or combinations of audio equipment can inherently sound this way in your room, however quality mechanical Isolation systems can go a long way to help with this removing the harder or harsher edges from your musical notes. Careful system placements and cable choices can do big things.  Yes, accessories do make a substantial difference!
 
It is a general misconception that harmful vibrations only enter your audio equipment externally from your room.  Most harmonics are produced internally by your audio equipment.  Factors such as transformers, power supplies and electronic components resonating to the frequency of the music signal enter components on your rack.  Audio components are micro phonic picking up these frequencies and simply repeating them causing a reverberation, this is heard through your speakers as a ghosting after the last played note has been played, and in other words it is not clear.   
To really hear your audio equipment, resonance control needs to be introduced to your audio system.  It does matter what you place your equipment on!
 
How does AG Lifter Isolation Technology differ from the rest?
Welcome to a revolutionary way to manage harmonics and retain transient speed, wide dynamic range, and dynamics. 
The AG Lifter design drains the harmonics from the audio equipment, dampens, then transfers into the live frame dispersing the resonance in “real time” through the AG Lifter proprietary alloy extrusion and pillar profile.  These steps are repeated through coupling and decoupling between layers, and finally isolated from your floor with the legendary AG Lifter Dulcet 20 Isolation Foot.  The Isolation foot does not require any spiking – so it is floor friendly. 
 
What do you think? Have you really heard your audio components?

Did you know that turntables require a different design of isolation system than audio electronics! 
“Why” because turntables generate and are affected by low frequency harmonics, however mitigating high frequency harmonics will improve your sound quality.   
Turntable motors, belts, drives, bearings all feed harmonics into the Plinth and the tone arm, the tone arm supports your very sensitive cartridge. This results in a noisy audio system.
Affordable turntables lack in resonance mitigation, thus the implementation of a well-designed turntable isolation system will reap rewards, raising the performance to a new level. Music lovers will be convinced they upgraded their turntable!
AG Lifter provides two solutions for turntable isolation, the first option is our European inspired three layer system, and this provides excellent low frequency dampening. Secondly, the AG Lifter Dulcet Isolation Feet with Nitrile balls, replacing the standard Stainless Steel balls is a recommended option. This system is very effective dampening a wider range of harmonic frequencies. The result is a quiet, open, detailed sound with greater bass definition. 

AG Lifter Technical Bulletin 

AG Lifter Turntable Isolation system: Low frequencies of 5-20 Hz are the most harmful for turntable playback.  Entry level turntables rarely incorporate audio isolation solutions within their design, which is understandable.  Introducing an isolation system can improve the performance of these turntables considerably – reducing noise, increasing openness, detail and tightening up the bass. We have had success incorporating our AG Lifter Turntable Isolation system even on turntable models built by names such as Thorens, Linn, Project, Well Tempered, Pioneer and others. The AG Lifter Turntable Isolation system is a European-inspired design, which began as a solution for a laboratory facility located near a train track; they experienced vibration issues with their microscopes and test equipment.  This solution is now more widely utilised in other industrial applications where silencing low frequency noise is required.
AG Lifter Turntable Isolation Feet are moulded nitrile in a three-layer system:

• The top layer has tiny conical peaks at slightly different heights, producing a surface with varying pressure points on contact with your TT plinth; the underside of this layer is moulded with radial recesses.
• The centre layer is moulded with 13mm ball bearing shapes, which interlock in the top and bottom layer recesses.
• The third and final layer is a repeat of the top layer and interlocks with the centre layer, with the opposite conical side being in contact with your audio shelf.

AG Lifter Turntable Isolation Feet provide a very simple and effective solution for turntable isolation!