If you own quality monitor speakers you want to read this new review

Hey fuzztone,

Ran that experiment, monitors mounted on the NSMT platforms and placing the monitors on their own stands and placing the band-pass subwoofers where I normally have my sub-woofers placed, and the significant improvements still were apparent. Don't know if you read the review, but my process of evaluating the effects were extensive to come to my conclusions.

Hey wolfie62,

Gezz, I wish you and some of the others posters would read the details in the review regarding the differences between regular sub-woofers, like your Velodynes, and how an acoustic band-bass design are not the same thing. Your subs use DSP to control certain frequencies, instead of loading the driver in an unique fashion in a ported box which leads to a very different loading of the room by the device. I have used excellent pairs of sub-woofers for years with monitor speakers with excellent results. However, they never reproduced the weight/foundation of the power region in the music and allowed the spatial cues to effect the sound-staging to evolve into a three-dimensional illusion that the monitors completely disappear in. I could allows "deal-in" the subs, no problem in my listening space(s) and they worked fine without mudding up the mid-range's timbres or clarity. The NSMT band-bass platforms are a different approach and deliver sonicly a vastly experience then a regular active sub-woofer. In the review I asked the designer, Erol Ricketts,to explain the differences and why he chose to use this design in this model.

My excitement over these platforms is that they just don't take a reference level monitor's performance and add bass extension, but transforms them into delivering in a way that usually is only done by large multi-driver floor-standing models without losing any of the tonal purity and sound-staging magic of small two-way designs.

Hey mijostyn,

Please read the review for the details/explanation you asking about. There is an extensive/detailed explanation by Erol Ricketts, the designer, that I requested he contribute to my review for the very reason you are asking your question.

Hey jaudio1,
Thanks for the kind words towards my review. I would explain the hook-up this way, the monitor,regardless of which one you use, is directly driven by the main amplifier because the speaker wire goes directly into its terminals. Then, the jumpers connect the band-pass section with the full run monitor, which is driven and tuned by its own active amplifier and controls. Regarding, the matching of the veneers and the platforms: I can see some individuals getting them in a black finish that would look good and general support visually any color/veneer of the mounted monitor. However, the monitors I tested the platforms with were all walnut,except one which was gloss black, and looked great as a pair.