Thanks confirms my suspicion.
I will stick to decanting - I also decant properly, usually standing the bottle for a good week before I open it. I only use the panty hose to filter out cork when old and fragile corks disintegrate.
That said maybe the better technique would be to centrifuge unopened bottles to protect again the loss of volatile compounds but still consolidate the sediment. The only problem (other than the size of the centrifuge) I see is having to do two bottles of the same wine at the same time to balance the centrifuge.
