RE: dampeners
Yeah, that way you can transfer all that energy into your riser instead? I have not heard one of those systems that is as quiet as good string silencers yet. It might cut down on recoil and take the twang out of the string but having a string slam into a peice of rubber at 100 + mile an hour is far from quiet in my opinion.
If I were to use an sts device I would still use string silencers.
Paul