The small price of Levitation (Relaxa 1)

Levitation, you heard me... I was over at AV Domain the other day just having a general poke around to see what new and cool stuff they had in. This imediately caught my attention.

It's the Relaxa 1 by SAP an isolation device designed to isolate electronic vibrations using only strategicly places strong magnets. (at this point I was sold!)

As it turns out the device has been around for some time (This review was done back in 2001) and has been an International CES Innovations Award Winner.

The key to the system is using 8 strong but small magnets (as above) that are specifically designed to reduce the stray magnetic field to a negligible value even close to the magnets. This is basically to prevent any magnetic field interaction with phono cartridges and electronic circuits. The antivibration platform can support loads from 2kgs to 25kgs which is more than enough for most turntables, the piece of kit that is most likely to benefit from the system.

Admittedly it's major application would be for turntables that were on less than rigid stands (like my entertainment unit), but on coolness factor alone it has my vote.

It's not cheap though.. RRP is $999 (although Len Wallis have it on special for $699 at the moment)