Introducing Silencer, the new support pods for your record player.

Silencer is a new equipment support pod designed to enhance the performance of your record player. 

Silencer combines a hard felt resistive coupling foot, a direct coupling ball and an isolation layer of Sorbothane. From listening tests carried out with all Vertere record players, the addition of Silencer, especially when partnered with the Vertere Iso-Shelf, brought about an improvement to stereo focus, a reduction in background noise and greater LF resolution. The sort of improvement that a significant upgrade in MC cartridge might bring. 

Silencer the story

A debate has raged for many years about the principles of 'isolation' feet, spikes, and equipment

tables. The question is, do they isolate or couple? Or a combination of both? We know that hi-fi

products, especially turntables, are sensitive to external vibrations / energy sources. We also know

that power supplies and significant current-carrying circuits vibrate in sympathy with the signal

(usually music) that they are carrying.

Therefore, there is a reason for supports that sink unwanted vibrations to ground. But at the same

time, we know that ground isn't free of vibrations, but in general, they are of very low frequency and

very low amplitude. So, it's a complicated minefield filled with far more BS than fact.

Given the vast variation in the design of hi-fi products, it would be unrealistically confident (that is to

say stupid) to expect anyone's 'isolation' product to improve the performance of everything. So, no

promises on anything other than a Vertere product but a suggestion that the benefits are more

widespread from our experimentation.

Silencer combines a hard felt resistive coupling foot, a direct coupling ball and an isolating layer of

Sorbothane. From listening tests carried out with all Vertere record players, the Silencer addition,

especially with an Iso-Shelf, brought about an improvement in stereo focus, a reduction in

background noise and greater LF resolution. The sort of improvement that a significant upgrade in MC

cartridge might bring.

Silencers can also assist with levelling as there is approximately 5mm of height adjustability in its

design. The range of possible weight that Silencer can support is quite extensive. We have heard

sonic benefits supporting the Phono-1 phono stage, which is relatively light, through to the RG-1

record player, which is heavy.