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On test here are the following gunslingers, 1. Aurio's Classic 2. Cold Rays 3. Finite Elemente Ceraball Universal 4. Finite Elemente Cerabase Classic 5. Finite Elemente Cerabase Compact   6. Franc Audio Ceramic Disc Classic 7. Golden Sound's DH Cones and Squares 8. Herbie's Tenderfoot 9. Herbie's Isocup with Black Lamp Ball 10. Kryna C-PROP Mini / D-PROP Mini 11. Magic Hexa 12. Stillpoints Ultra Mini 13. Stillpoints Ultra SS (New)  14. TAOC TITE-46GP 15. Valab ball bearing footer 16. Yamamoto Sound Craft PB-09 / PB-10 Ebony base Aurios Classic Unlike its namesake, the Aurios cannot be dunked in milk, or eaten. But like Oreo cookies, the Aurios are made out of two circular halves, with the goodstuff in between. 3 steel ball bearings take the place of the sweetened white cream in the cookie version.The steel bearings sit in a circular race, with a plastic triangular guide to hold the 3 ball bearings in place. Out of all the devices featured here, the Aurios have the dubi...

The TAOC Tite-13GS is tiny, especially compared to its much larger and heavier siblings in the TAOC range. Picture from TAOC's official website Measuring just 25 mm in diameter and 10 mm in thickness, each piece weights 30 grams. Sold in a set of 8, their primary use is to act as an isolation disc in between the base of bookshelf speakers and speaker stands. Apart from that, their use is limited only by your imagination. The local dealer suggests that you can also use them as equipment footers to support very small equipment (like USB/SPDIF converters, power supply boxes etc), or on top of equipment to damp chassis resonance. I tried a single piece each on top of my Audio-Gd DAC-19 and Kingrex PSU-MkII. Initial results were not encouraging, with the tonal balance simply feeling a bit unnatural. After some experimentation, they ended up close to the transformers. Interestingly, they sounded better off center, rather than directly over the transformer. In typical TAOC fashion, there ...