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Monitor Stands - Made of Stone

Friends,

I recently purchased a pair of Dutch & Dutch 8c monitors. 

I'm very disappointed by the lack of well designed (and aesthetically pleasing) stands on the market. So being an architect I’ve decided to take matters into my own hands and design my own. A very good friend of mine who’s very talented stone mason has offered to help me build a pair of stone pedestals.

I’m curious if any of you have been down this road and what type of stone you’ve used and what the results were?

I’m going to use Live Vibe Audio products beneath the monitors to displace resonance/vibration into the mass of the stone pedestals, which will yield much better results than anything placed on my 2nd level wood floor. The pedestals I’ve been told will weigh 200+ pounds each and are just simple rectangular extrusions of the monitors footprint. 
 

I welcome all thoughts and ideas.

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ronboco
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I watched both videos which were very good. But he only addressed vibration and from what I’ve read here if the cabinet and drivers are both moving back and forth there will be smearing. Has anyone experienced this? 

pwayland
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Consider physics and ignore the rest. In my opinion a speaker would perform best id anchored to bedrock with concrete and rebar. Anything less is just not physics so your idea to use stone is brilliant! Go for it a smile as you man who understands physics! You will be rewarded in spades with fantastic sound. The speaker base interface comes to mind though... peace 

pwayland
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Please someone explain the physics of why any isolation tech can help a speaker have perfect rigidity and anchor?  Isolation, Springs ?  Any of this makes no sense to me. I actually plan to anchor my Duntechs with casons to bedrock in a Mt house I'm building,.. Think about it. Every wave force exerted by a diaphragm performs best when that diaphragm has a perfectly rigid substrate. Physics. 

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townshend-audio
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl1yxW2Skeg&pp=ygUNbWF4IHRvd25zaGVuZA%3D%3D

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69zoso69 OP
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I’m not too proud to change my mind when new information/experience or well reasoned advice comes my way. 

I’m by no means a bass head but there are certain tracks I play to test just how  subterranean my Dutch & Dutch speakers can go. With some tracks they will shake the foundation, no exaggeration. This evening I put a wine glass with a nice merlot on top of my speakers and played (Heartbeat - Wychazel). The juice was sloshing around in the glass. I didn’t know if I should laugh or cry. 

This has me now thinking I would be best served by “decoupling” and I’ve reconsidered this use of Townshend Podiums between the suspended wood floor and my custom speaker stands.

 

I still plan on using some kind of stone with the stands (granite or marble) to act as a front baffle in line with the baffle of the D&D’s. The superstructure will be steel. I might use Live Vibe cones/disks between the top plate of the speaker stand and the bottom of the speakers. In effect using both coupling and decoupling technologies. 

I want to express my thanks to all who’ve contributed to this thread and adding  rasa to my curiosity. 
 

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