Medium Cloud 11

Medium Cloud 11

$699.00

One of the three sizes in the Cloud 11™ series, the 11M model comes with eight balls to carry a load of up to 80 lbs. Users can subtract balls for lighter loads and add balls for heavier loads. Fewer balls result in a softer suspension and a fuller, richer sound. More balls result in a stiffer suspension and a more dynamic, exciting sound.

Description

The Cloud 11M vibration control platform has the following features:

  • Its bottom plate has deeper wells to provide an added level of safety in use. The balls stay in the wells, resting squarely on the dimples.
  • Measuring 20 inches by 18 inches, the top plate accommodates components with larger footprints. It features a thicker skirt that makes the platform more rigid to withstand heavier components and minimize deformation.
  • The extra thickness of the bottom plate and the top plate skirt improve vibration reduction performance to an average of 99% of the vibration from 5 Hz to 500 Hz, with a resonant frequency of around 13 Hz.

Additional information

Dimensions 20 × 18 × 2.5 in
Acrylic finish

Product Reviews

If you own a turntable you owe it to yourself to try this superb product at an honest price. The music emerges from a cleaner background, the overall presentation is livelier, the soundstage larger and more detailed. Individual instruments and voices now contain missing detail.

Rather than expanding the soundstage, the Gingko cleans things up without changing the size of the performance. This allows the background to seem blacker, images to float a little more, and dynamic nuances to be more easily conveyed.

All in all the Gingko Cloud 11 is a great product at a reasonable price. It is simple to set up and use and it does what it claims to do. It looks good under even the most well manufactured components and larger sizes are also available, (the largest is 26″ x 20″) for oversized turntables and components.

Unlike most cones and footers I’ve tried, the Cloud 11 did not highlight portions of the frequency spectrum. Instead, I noticed a quieter aural canvas where instruments and voices emerged from a blacker backdrop with greater focus and definition. Bass was tighter and music had a slightly more dynamic snap to it. The upper midrange and highs were also sweeter, with less sibilance and glare.

I immediately noticed that the bass was better. ALL OVER better. Firmer, deeper, tighter — the whole nine yards. And I could play the LP VERY loudly with no problems at all.

Using some B&K conditioning amps, an IBM Thinkpad, and Spectrogram software developed by Richard Horne, the Gingko boys were able to give me irrefutable evidence that their platform was effective in isolating the Scoutmaster from the outside world.

   – Michael Fremer, Analog Corner, Stereophile, November 2004 Issue

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