Critical Mass Systems Center Stage 2

Critical Mass Footers Center Stage 2 The size is the 1.0 which is in the middle of the 3 sizes offered and is a set of 4.

Way better than any Stillpoint's, and really any other footers. These will amaze you!

I have 8 sets of these under all my equipment. This set is left over from the sale of my Sorcer.

“In audiophile terms, the transients had a little more pop and decays appeared to linger just a little longer. Something similar occurred on vinyl. Take Shelby Lynne’s album Just A Little Lovin’, which Chad Kassem’s Acoustic Sounds has released on vinyl. The bass line seemed to possess a little more whomp and Lynne’s voice, more extension in the treble region.”

“For all the technical explanations that the designers of isolation equipment may provide, I always find myself falling back, in the end, on my humble auscultatory faculties. Improvements in the soundstage, dynamics, and detail? You know them when you hear them. In this case, I more than did. If you’re searching for some isolation, not from society but from audio gremlins, then I urge you to investigate these remarkably potent little devices.”

“The most obvious improvements could be distilled into three categories; a substantially lowered noise floor, remarkably improved warmth, with more realistic body, more natural tone and texture, and a vastly enriched, more enveloping and immersive soundstage.

First and foremost, there was a laid-back, relaxed ease to the presentation that just drew me into the music. The overall noise floor had seemed to plummet, even lower than I had recalled with the original CS footers in place. The resultant stillness this afforded, by way of a darker, starker, background, was just intoxicating, adding a power and persuasiveness to everything I played, allowing me to be informed as much by the silence between musical impulses as by the effortless drive and pace of the musical gestalt itself.

Instrumental tone colors, including their textures and verve, had bloomed. There was a newfound effortlessness and neutrality to every aspect of the music I played now, even with my digital rig, which cannot quite match my analog front end in this respect. And this sense of neutrality, of naturalness, of faithfulness, was broad-band, extending from the deepest reaches of the bass to include a newfound shimmer and sparkle in the uppermost octaves. My Von Schweikert Audio VR-55 Aktive's custom-built Scan-Speak Beryllium tweeters seemed to be even more unrestrained than ever, allowing them to develop that sense of graceful effortlessness, of unfettered extension, replete with the perception of the air of and around instrumental voices that allows them to regenerate that final, compelling measure of attack, decay, and trailing ambiance.
And what a spatial presentation!

My initial sensation of three-dimensionality, that enveloping immersiveness bordering on surround-sound that the original CS footers had created so effortlessly, was back, but was even more apparent and unmistakable. The presentation I was hearing from my reference two-channel system was approaching the spatial characteristics rendered by an exceptionally well setup 5.1 multi-channel music surround system!
The CenterStage2 footers are so significantly better than any other single footer, cone, or isolation device I have experienced over the past 35 years, that comparing them, or trying to equate their effectiveness in any manner, would be to insult the accomplishments attained by the CMS CenterStage2.

These devices represent a near quantum leap forward in their ability to unlock and release the most faithful and accurate voice your equipment can recreate. They allow the purity and clarity of its true voice, a voice that has previously been masked and contaminated by the unaddressed destructive, polluting forces of vibrational energy, thereby setting a ridiculously high benchmark of performance. What Joe Lavrencik has achieved with the Critical Mass Systems CenterStage2 footer is to realize the otherwise unfulfilled promise such products have heralded from their inception in 1983 and should be seen as more than merely an order of magnitude of improvement in the performance of the now 35-year-old "footer" product category. No, they aren't cheap. But they represent the highest degree of value obtainable from any isolation device known to me, and the single most effective way I've yet found to release the utmost best from your system, period.”

Critical Mass Systems Center Stage Footer - Positive Feedback (positive-feedback.com)

Critical Mass Systems Center Stage² Isolation Footers - The Absolute Sound