Eliminate
Vibrational
Interference
Experience a more detailed sound with less background noise and smearing of notes
"The deep and extended drum roll during the opening is noticeably cleaner and more controlled"
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"The beautifully made Symphony supports do a great job of providing effective isolation"
"Under every piece of equipment and on any surface we tried, the isolation devices allowed for more stable, more focused, more organised, more palpable soundstage, with significantly improved microdynamics, lifting subtle details out of the normal background of grain and fuzz"
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OMEX – Symphony A and S
Symphony are a range of equipment supports from OMEX, they comprise of two levels. Symphony A and Symphony S, each range has two tiers of performance, a 2 disc space limited model and a more accomplished 3 disc variant.
Symphony has been crafted as a clear upgrade to the existing supports on audio electronics, under floorstanding speakers or speaker stands as well as racking systems.
Both Symphony A and Symphony S share the similar design principals, yet their material selections are radically different and can be very clearly distinguished apart by their colouring, weight and performance.
Symphony A is machined from an Aluminium Polymer Compound (APC). The properties of this compound allow for fine tuning of the structure’s rigidity and ability to dampen resonances, too soft and it provides no structural strength, too hard and it will simply ring like piece of glass under stress.
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Symphony A’s discs also differ in APC density to that of its APC tuning fork in order to critically dampen the upper disc and allow the bearings to efficiently dissipate the unwanted vibrations into micro amounts of heat.
Getting this balance just right allows for the taming of induced oscillation from the material, which can be fed back into the delicate electronics. So, the device doesn’t take one frequency of resonant activity, interact with it and send back a slightly different resonance which then displays in the music and colouring the sound. For example: removal of bass bloat – traded off for a high-frequency ringing, which displays itself as distortion or an etched brightness. Making it far more effective a material than a traditional aluminium structure, often featured in other isolation products.
Stainless steel isn’t a new material for use in isolation due to its inherent strength and low resistance properties. Stainless steel effectively absorbs and dissipates vibrations, minimising their propagation and impact on delicate circuitry and structural forms alike.
In order to compliment these attributes and refine the sonic signature Symphony S’ tuning fork is machined from a high-grade brass, which is directly and thickly 24ct gold plated in order to give a softer barrier between that of the brass and its stainless steel discs.
On the Brinell Scale of Hardness, Brass has a hardness 3 times softer than that of stainless steel, yet has the attribute of being heavier per cubic centimetre, making it a great choice for damping the absorbed resonances of the stainless steel.
​Furthermore, the addition of a layer of gold between the two materials allows for another level of control and increased performance, which is reflected in overall sound quality. It’s own level of hardness is close to 2 and a ½ times softer than the brass and makes for a great buffer layer between that of the brass and the stainless steel, showing very worthwhile improvements, particularly on a micro and macro level.
Micro Grooving
Each Symphony device begins with an outer micro-grooved upper and lower disc, whose job it is to grip the underside of electronics and the surface of a rack shelf more effectively than that of a smooth surface. This gripping effect has greater ability to contact and transfer resonances from the equipment and begin the process of eliminating them from the delicate circuitry in one direction and the equipment supports in the other, enhancing shelf to shelf isolation.
Tuning Forks
The centre piece of each upper disc is a carefully implemented tuning fork. This design encompasses a varying metallic density to the disc structure itself. In order to dampen and control the flow of resonances, this tuning fork sits inside an internal chamber within a central spine.
For isolating electronics, Symphony’s tuning fork resides below the top of the device to ensure that it itself is not activated by first-hand resonances, allowing it to perform it’s job in damping those resonances prior to reaching the ball bearing decoupling points.
For use with speakers, Symphony can accommodate a spike centrally within its tuning fork. The top layer becomes more of a weight loaded funnel using the top disc as a means to freely resonate off any initial high frequency resonances with the central spine ending the speakers interaction with the floor and giving it a new coupled point of reference which then becomes decoupled through the bearing points, allowing for a cleaner, tighter and more concise sound.
Scrub Layer
The 3 layer versions of Symphony A and S’ additional central disc further reduces induced vibrational activity from each resonant point – both electronics and rack or speaker and floor have less opportunity of interacting with each other and thus isolating feed-through and feedback activity more effiectively.
We refer to this disc as the “Scrub Layer”. Its primary role is to remain completely decoupled from the top and bottom discs and can be concentrically swung laterally from the vertical arrangement. With its only points of contact being the bearings in between each layer, which are staggered in the 3 disc arrangement to more effectively reduce and breakdown the directionality of a resonant field.
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Further to the benefits for speakers and electronics, the additional disc has significant benefits when used underneath many well respected racking systems. Our testing with a large range of brands has proven that OMEX Symphony further enhances performance even when a well engineered racking system is in use.
Symphony 2A
Symphony 3A
Symphony 2S
Symphony 3S
Disc Material
Stainless Steel
Stainless Steel
Aluminium Polymer Compound
Aluminium Polymer Compound
Tuning Fork Material
Micro
Grooving
Aluminium Polymer Compound
Aluminium Polymer Compound
24ct Gold Plated Brass
24ct Gold Plated Brass
Ball Bearing Material
Stainless Steel
Stainless Steel
Ceramic
Zirconia
Scrub Layer
