![]() ![]() I wouldn’t assume too much about what a product’s full feature set is based on the patents that cover it (although it likely includes at least some aspects of the patents). Often, as each new product is developed, companies will assess whether anything in new design is patentable, and file accordingly.īut even if there is nothing newly patentable with a new design, it still may be much improved over the previous design, even if they are both covered by the same original patent. It is not unusual for an early patent to apply to many of a companies products, and for later (eg, more specialized) patents to apply to later or more advanced products. They could separately be covered by separate claims of the same patent that may be very different, as one example, or could be covered by the same claim but one product could include any number of additional features (whether those additional features corresponded to a different patent (or application) or not). Third, even if they were covered by the same patent, that wouldn’t necessarily mean they include the exact same technology. Second, the Orea clearly are labeled “Patent Pending,” which is a strong indication that Orea includes different technology than the Puck. The post above is almost completely wrong.įirst, while the Iso puck mini packaging does reference that patent, neither the Orea Bronze nor Indigo do (these are just the three Iso products I had handy). ![]() If they were substantially or even minimally (besides cosmetics) different there would be another patent Here is the single patent that appears to cover the Gaia speaker bolt-on, Orea and Iso-puck devices. Hmm… maybe I should get some for my headphone amps? ![]() ![]() Not enough external vibrations to justify their continued use, but I think I just feel comfortable knowing they are protected against the potential vibrations of barking dogs, passing garbage trucks, school buses and auto boom boxes, sonic booms, earthquakes, meteorite impacts, etc. And I don’t have any under my four headphone amps. Not sure why though as I no longer have speaker generated sound waves bombarding my components. The only components I now have are oreas under my DSD DAC and Stellar P3 PP. The orea do look “prettier” though which I guess falls into the pride of ownership category.Īfter migrating to a dedicated headphone system I sold most of my isolators. Regarding the differences in apparent performance between isopucks and oreas, there was none that I could ever discern. I felt that most of my components sound was improved, or at the very least, not harmed with IsoAcoustic isolators beneath them. Subjective performance improvement was a tighter sound presentation particularly among the lower frequencies. With the oreas under the speakers there was zero vibration transmitted to the stands. Without them the characteristic Harbeth enclosure resonance was easily felt with my hands on the stands. Biggest improvement was heard with oreas between my Harbeth SHL5+ speakers and their stands. I once had all my two channel components mounted atop oreas or isopucks. Regarding the ISO-Puck Series, I couldn’t find the performance Curve information on the website, are the graphs available?Īt the moment we don’t have performance curves that compare the ISO-Pucks with the OREA series.īased on various reviews, personal anecdotes, and this info’ I’m going with the OREA’s. More effective isolation resulting in more sound clarity and focus. The performance curve is narrower in weight range and will provide a stronger sonic benefit in it’s range than the ISO-PUCKs. The OREA’s on the other hand are designed for Home Audio and have a more “classy” appearance in stainless steel. The ISO-PUCK was originally designed for the Pro Audio market and is a very versatile isolator for studio monitors, guitar/bass amps and cabinets, subwoofers, DJ equipment, mic stands etc… and has a fairly broad performance curve. What is the difference between the OREA and ISO-Puck? So, I emailed this question to IsoAcoustics: Still, I didn’t want to be continually second-guessing if I was getting the best performance. I was thinking of using the ISO-Puck series for my BHK Preamp and Amplifiers, initially based on price. In the process of researching component isolation and its effectiveness I’ve read in several forum discussions people comment, the only difference between the IsoAcoustics OREA series and ISO-Puck series was primarily cosmetic. After the SQ improvement of adding IsoAcoustics GAIA II isolators to my GoldenEar Triton Reference speakers, it got me to thinking about additional tweaks. ![]()
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