BTW—I was told by The Cable Company that I couldn’t purchase one ball for my Iso-Pod and I also can’t buy just one Pod.
I called VooDoo and yes, they’ll sell Iso-Pods individually and they also dropped two balls in an envelope at no charge. Very nice customer service.
Just FYI
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I am hoping that composite quartz has different resonate frequencies than granite. Seems pretty inert to me and I think the mass helps. Had double thick MDF platforms before. Didn’t really notice a difference.
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IME granite can only be really effective if bonded in a constrained layer solution. On its own, bleh.
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Wow, that’s interesting. I was able to buy one IsoPod from the Cable Company in the past, and I found a Chinese company selling the same or dastardly similar balls and bought about a dozen. Those suckers can disappear!
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My friend with the Clearaudio turntable and the Goldfinger Diamond V2 cartridge just ordered a new My Sonic Lab Signature Platinum cartridge. The Godfinger is getting a bit old and he needs a change. Can’t wait to listen to it when he gets it. Maybe it is in my future too, we’ll see.
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I have owned that cartridge for a couple of years now. I am quite pleased with it. @minnesotafats has one now as well. Pricey, but it seems to do a great job ignoring surface noise as well as allowing all those other sounds through cleanly. Your friend has got it sweet! It appears he and I have the same tonearm as well.
(I worry about that wall wart though)
(Hopefully it powers a lamp)
(I dusted the tonearm after seeing the above picture. Sheesh!)
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Great, that reinforces my friend has made a great choice in his new cartridge!
I’m not sure what that wall wart is, I’m pretty sure it isn’t powering his turntable. The black boxes on the bottom right of picture is the power for his TT and phono preamp.
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I would rather not have an audio system than to have that rats nest. Gosh!
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The government wants to control how many copper rods you can bury in your own property? Amazing!
Then your green painted CDs would sound even better.
If you invite Andy over to reorganize your wiring, and you then have to get rid of your Gryphon gear, I’m willing to help.
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Government overreach is near and dear to my heart, given that opinion, this is not a good example. This is a National Electrical Code (NEC) issue that makes good sense (lots of dumb examples in the NEC - too much industry input IMNHO). The idea is to control the path for any electrical fault back to the source transformer and provide a consistent ground potential for your home between the electrical service, cold water piping and structural steel. This is good electrical distribution engineering 101 codified by the NEC.
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Glad you chimed in, @amsco15. Personally I chose to ignore responding to this. 
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Codes are not only there to protect you, but to protect others that may buy your house later. I agree many rules get antiquated and they dont circle back and fix. just add new. gets daunting sifty through all of them when doing something.
My Steve Blinn rack effectively uses maple shelves and I am most happy with it. Come to think of it my Timbernation rack uses tiger maple shelves and my wife is most happy with it, less of an industrial look to it.
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The problem with grounding rods is that the electrical inspector doesn’t even take a resistance measurement. you have to have 2 in my area connected together, but that doesn’t mean it meets the NEC minimum standard.
And then you have to water your rod…
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Careful with the salacious comments 
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In some States you’re only allowed to add a second grounding rod to the main residence if the existing grounding rod has a resistance of >25 Ohms.