Louis Motek from LessLoss just sent in the Laminar Streamer development update info:
We are currently finishing up the silk screening job and hand assembling the first production main circuit board. We changed everything around during our last revision and optimization. We’ll report on how it goes! Below, you can see how the Panzerholz will make direct contact to a generous portion around the edges of the circuit board. The anti-vibration qualities of the Panzerholz material will thus be utilized to the extreme. The round holes are for the robust industrial specced precision control buttons. Thick steel will immediately surround the SD card upon insertion. You can see the thick round top plate here, viewed from the inside of the device. (This is the underside of the plate.) It is quite amazing how it rings like a bell because it is inherently very resonant material, but when mated to the Panzerholz, even without using any bolts, it is dead silent and doesn’t exhibit even the slightest ringing tail. It sounds like a rock buried in moist earth.
The same goes for the large, main plate of steel. The aim here is to separate the low frequency EM fields coming from the transformer from the main circuit board, which will be on the far side of it. Basically, what you see here is what the main circuit board will see when it “looks” at the transformer — a centimeter thick steel barrier which will absorb all of the low frequency fields. The holes will be filled with steel bolts, too, so nothing will get through.
This is an example of the bolts I mean. Here you see how they hold the round leg tightly to the Panzerholz above. Again, I emphasize the uncanny feeling that metal makes absolutely no sound when mated tightly to the Panzerholz. Not even a very short ring, which you’d expect to hear upon wrapping on it.
The leg will make contact with the furniture in only three symmetrical places, for ultimate stability in stance and to minimize any possible micro-vibration at the foot-table interface.
The control buttons, likewise, will have no chance at introducing even the slightest parasitic micro-vibration to the unit. The Play button will glow dark blue when engaged, but in Laminar Mode, all power to both the visual display and to the diode in the Play button itself will be disengaged. Even the operating system, at that point, will not know anything about the SD data except the very sample it is currently on, and where the next one is. At that point it will be absolutely smooth sailing, and the Laminar Streamer will be completely in its element.
