August, 2023 - Carbide Audio introduces the Carbide Base Diamond audio equipment footer. This ambitious new vibration isolator is the first in audio to use bearing raceways machined out of solid ceramic and coated with diamond using a Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) process.
The extremely hard bearing raceways resist indentation from the ball bearings better than other previous designs that use softer materials like steel and titanium. Avoiding raceway indentation defects allows the bearings to better dissipate stray vibrations via the concept of vibration transmission path evasion.
Carbide Base Diamond also incorporates Carbide Audio’s new TwinDamp™ material based on a manganese-copper twin-crystal metal alloy having over 10 times the damping capacity of copper. TwinDamp™ enhances the damping properties of manganese-copper through multiple stages of temperature treatments.
Collectively, these upgrades result in further lowering of the already exceptionally low noise floor of the Carbide Base footer.
Carbide Base Diamond is available now directly from https://carbide.audio or internationally from our network of distributors. A Diamond Upgrade Kit is also available which can be used to convert the standard version of Carbide Base to the Diamond version.
