Nobosound Springs


others have mentioned these on this forum and Amazon had them on sale, so I purchased 3 sets - 4 springs/set - one each for speakers and one for my VPI TT. I did the speakers first - about a week ago - could not believe the difference in sound. mids were way more clear and open. Like the instruments were hanging in the air. Bass was clean with no booming. I was able to turn the vol control from 3 o'clock to 4 o'clock.

Installed them under the TT a couple days later - did not notice a huge difference in anything, but for the price, I am fine.

I have zero interest in this company.

played D2D from Lincoln Mayorga and others, Royal Ballet from APO, Miles Davis Prestige box set, plus others. All I can say is WOW.

TT is VPI Prime, speakers are full range 8" open baffle from Decware. Amp and pre-amp are tubes from Decware. 

Just sharing - YMMV of course. 

dmk_calgary

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I am a big believer in spring isolation.  I have nobosound under my amp and DAC.  I don't think gains are huge isolating your components when your floor is concrete.  There isn't much vibration getting transmitted. But it can't hurt.  I will point out that the standard nobosound has 7 springs.  You should probably reduce it to 3 for your turntable.  This will adjust the natural frequency of the spring system (calculated as sqrt [k/m]) badk to where it sould be.  Since the m of your turntable is low, you need to reduce the spring constant k, and less spings means lower k.  That is unless you've got one of those huge massive turntables (I'm all digital so I've never picked up a high end turntable).

On my 140 lb speakers I decided the nobosound were not stiff enough and went with a professionally designed spring isolation system from townshend.  I too was shocked by the improvement.  It was about $1600 more than nobosound and sounds like the results were not much different than you achieved but it does have a stable platform and an engineering calc behind it.  

You might post the weight of your speakers.  You have experimentally determined the mass of a speaker that matches the nobosounds well.

Jerry

springs isolate speakers and allow the speakers to vibrate naturally.  

spikes anchor them to the floor so they try to vibrate the floor which limits their vibration.

Rubber, cork tend to damp vibration so it limits the ability of the speaker to vibrate but somewhat differetly than spikes.

Those are the facts.

What is opinion is which of these approaches is better for sound.  Lots of different opinions.  I posted mine above (springs) the OP posted that he prefers springs.  I think springs make most sense.

but I realize others have other opinions and I respect that. I just wanted to point out what each option does.  Make your own educated decision and enjoy the sound.

Jerry

@clearthinker while your math is correct,making it sound factual that spikes are better, it is still your opinion that anchoring the speaker to the floor sounds better. Springs to just the opposite.  2 very unequal masses almost totally decoupled.

I have no problem with people disagreeing.  If we never did, we wouldn't have this forum.

Enjoy.

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