TiGLON TMB-DR20E - ANTI-VIBRATION PLATFORM/ARTIFICIAL GROUND Made in Japan
The TMB-DR20E PLATFORM WAS launched in February this year and is based on the older TMB-10E model. Mr. KENTARO OKINO, the CEO and designer of TiGLON, has applied magnesium in two ways in it. So, it is an anti-vibration platform, but also artificial ground.
It measures 470 × 425 × 20 mm (W x D x H) and weighs 3.3 kg. Compared to other platforms, it is an almost compact product. It will be useful wherever the height of the base plays a role, e.g. in low shelves.
However, its hybrid three-layerdesign is advanced enough to treat it like other high-end products. . The top board is made of Russian birch wood and is 12 mm thick. In the middle there is a 2-mm pure magnesium plate, and at the bottom – a 6-mm layer of MDF. A small plate with a gold-plated company logo is attached at the front.
At the back of the platform, on its upper top, a small screw is placed, whose socket is connected to the magnesium plate inside. This screw fastens an eyelet attached to a 40-cm long cable, connected to a device standing on the TMB-DR20E. This is not just any cable, but the "Magnesium grounding cable D-REN Earth". The name says that this is a ground cable that makes use of the same techniques and materials as the company's connectors.
DF-OFC copper is the conductor, and the insulator is a material described in company materials as the "Super Clear Isolator." At the same time, it is not about optical transparency, because the outer jacket of the cable is purple, but about "transparency" to signal. TiGLON uses both materials in its flagship TPL-2000RX interconnect. In between the two is a material called D-REN Pro by TiGLON, which is supposed to reduce vibrations.
DF-OFC is oxygen-free copper (OFC) obtained in the process called DIP FORMING . This method of production was patented by the American company General Electric. In the mid-1970s, its license was sold to the Japanese SHOWA Electric Wire And Cable Co., Ltd. company, which is a separate division of the Tokyo Electric Company (today: Toshiba Corporation).
The process involves producing a thin wire and passing it through a trough of molten copper. Once the thick core is formed, it is then hot-rolled. This type of material formally has a purity of 99.99%, but it is more conductive than comparable OFC cables
Review from High Fidelity PL : -------
ALL THOSE ELEMENTS OF SOUND that I mentioned, i.e. sound focus, its volume, better bandwidth extension, more breath and lower sound, add up to what could be briefly described as greater enjoyment of listening to music. At first, the changes may not seem big. And yet, after a while, putting the player back on the shelf without the platform was uncomfortable for me.