I've never noticed any stand or support structure related resonance problems. Carbon fiber is a cool material and has great value in some things, but honestly I'm pretty skeptical of carbon fiber fanboi-ism generally*, and this application lands in that category for me. Of course from an engineering standpoint, resin impregnated carbon fiber resonates as does any other material, it's just likely to resonate at a different frequency and to a different degree. Has anyone who has reported that recordings made using carbon fiber mic stands and support mechanisms have 'reduced audiotory resonances' ever provided samples or recordings which compare those results to identical recordings made with aluminum or steel support structures? I'm not saying it's bunk, just that I don't think it's especially important. Especially since there are so many things that I do consider important which I need to consider 1st. I often hear room and FOH resonances, so those are the resonant issues that I do concern myself with. Those are probably orders of magnatude greater than stand vibrations.
If higher frequency resonance is a concern with typical telescopic steel TV antennas, a single strip of gaffer tape both blackens the reflective chrome surface and likely acts as a highly effective vibration damper in what would be that vibratory range- for a few pennys.
Transmision of floor-borne vibration at low frequencies might have more merit, but omnis in general are pretty good at rejecting handling noise. Again I'd have be be convinced that it's a problem which somehow has escaped my notice.
I'll happily look at anything you can point me to that might convince me otherwise.
*I'm sometimes involved with the design of equipment for boats and understand the popular facination for carbon fiber. To me the main benifits of cabon fiber are is strength/weight ratio, and it's sex appeal. But having looked at it for several of our products, I concluded that for my particular applications, aluminum is a superior material in the important aspects of cost, performance, failure mode, fabrication, modification, rework, our existing manufacuting expertice and capabilities, etc. Where it might have made sense was replacing other reinforced fiber laminates such as fiberglass, but even there, I concluded that the value for us was purely one of marketing, not engineering. Again, that's as applied to the projects I've been involved with. Of course there are many applications where carbon fiber is an optimal material choice, such as where using lightest weight possible structure is critical. But I don't design things like race cars or airplanes, so that doesn't apply to my work. There are some things we build that are not only about 10 times less costly, but end up being exactly the same weight in aluminum as they wold be in carbon fiber for the same strength and stiffness, for a number of design reasons.
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