Isolation Equipment

Pedestal Isolation Pod
The Pedestal™ is Wilson Audio’s Special Application Engineering (WASAE) division’s all-new isolation foot. The Pedestal reduces musically destructive vibrations in components with unparalleled efficiency. Its small bottom element partially absorbs vibrations traveling from the surface underneath the piece of equipment. The damping material inside of the Pedestal—“V-Material”—provides the next step in vibration reduction. V-Material, along with a proprietary viscous damping material inside the Pedestal, act as a spring to minimize, absorb, and dissipate the vibrations into heat. 

Where other manufacturers use low-grade, inexpensive magnetic steel in their isolation pods, the Pedestal uses austenitic (nonmagnetic) stainless steel, which exhibits superior vibration-mitigating characteristics and effectively eliminates undesirable electronic interactions with components caused by magnetizable steel. When weight is applied to the Pedestal, the internal V-Material element, along with the other critical components within the housing, are decoupled from the stainless steel exterior. From the reverse direction, from the component on down, any vibrations caused by environmental factors or from the audio system itself, travel into the top pad of the Pedestal, where they are absorbed. The Pedestal—WASAE’s solution for near absolute vibration isolation.

The damping material inside of the Pedestal—“V-Material”—provides the next step in vibration reduction. V-Material, along with a proprietary viscous damping material inside the Pedestal, act as a spring to minimize, absorb, and dissipate the vibrations into heat.

Important Details

• Each Pedestal is rated for weights up to 25lb/11.34Kg. A set of three successfully supports 75lbs. Add more Pedestals to accommodate greater weights.
• The white color ring indicates when max weight rating has been reached—when the ring disappears, the Pedestal has reached its maximum load.
• Shipped in quantities of up to 3 units per box
• Designed for use under electronics, digital transports, power supplies, tape machines, and turntables to acoustically isolate these components from the environment as well as to substantially reduce vibrations traveling from components to the surface below.
• NOT intended for use under loudspeakers.
• WASAE's patent pending design provides an unprecedented degree of decoupling between outer housing and constrained damping layers.

Acoustic Diode
The Wilson Audio R&D team has spent the past few years developing their latest advancement in vibration mitigation, the Wilson Audio Acoustic Diode. 
Energy from the enclosure migrates into the V-Material where it is faced with the effective damping properties of this efficient material. The mass of the loudspeaker concentrated onto the very small ends of the spike tips results in significant levels of PSI that prevent detrimental vibrations from traveling upward into the footer. Those vibrations that do travel up the spike are absorbed by the mass of the Acoustic Diode and have to travel through the V-Material to have a chance to influence the enclosure.

Keeping the spike and threaded post separate prevents a direct path for vibrations to travel, or interplay, and are therefore dissipated and absorbed in either the V-Material or the footer housing. This distinctive design, combined with advanced vibration-mitigating materials, provides the best of both worlds; a solid base from which the drivers can launch as well as preventing the transmission of energy from the floor to the loudspeakers.

Pedestal

Acoustic Diodes