I stand up, and lift the CD player off the speaker on which it had been resting. Suddenly the skipping stopped. No big surprise to find out that the pieces on which it had been skipping were the loud ones...

Cute story. Has nothing to do with an isolation pad improving the soundstage though. Like I said, transient vibrations which reach the CD player will manifest themselves as skips, not as soundstaging problems.

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Tony Fabris