Putting weights on speakers?


IME, putting 20 lb ankle weights on my 150 lb speakers greatly tightened and improved the bass and sound overall. Only problem is that the wife hates it... 
mglik

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Of course, that is unless you're supremely lucky and you do actually find a weight changing the resonant frequencies to optimal ones (by pure good luck).
Adding 5 or 10 pounds at times incrementally  will gives you the best tuning frequencies with the load....
rixthetrick159

She also think that i am the first and last fool that she will love.... :)

My best regards to you....
The only method to put some weigh on top of speakers is adding the load "incrementally" and listen in between each addition... Then we touch the optimal spot without degrading the sound....I was using myself some slab of around 10 pounds each and after some additions i experiment a dregradation or a stop in the increasing positive effects, i substract the last one and this was job done.....Almost all speakers will gain with this method....

If you put a definite amount of weigh in one shot without adding the weigh incrementally you will not know where is the optimal point....

There is a precise amount of load different for each speakers....

Overdamping can kill the dynamic and the clarity....But no damping most of the times dont gives to the speakers the card he will need to play at the top of his potential....
mahgister, your tweaking program is far beyond my comprehension. I’m sure it does wonders!
Without it the same "supposed to be good" speakers i own, Mission Cyrus 781, sound without life at all like all the others one at various degree before this embedding program ( tweaking dont describe the real problem and dont systematically adress it, and the word tweaking betray it)

With this program implemented i started to smile at  any upgrading urgency like to a no more useful dream finally...This is the results of my rightful triple embeddings problem in audio solved with low cost materials: mechanical resonance dimension, electrical grid dimension, and acoustical dimension....Calling it tweaking dont do justice to this very misunderstood problem nowwhere to be exposed with low cost solutions....

It was not like that at all in my journey beginnings 7 years ago, my journey to makes my dream of a true audio Hi-Fi system true.... But i have very little money to make it so then i was very frustrated reading reviews of my dreamed inaccessible components...

I take the task in my own hand, with serious experiments in listenings.... The rest is my history.... In my thread for details and in my virtual system page....

:)
mahgister, what happen’s in the audio room stay’s in the audio room. I imagine this is the look your wife give’s when you explain your tweeks. 🙄
You are right on the spot.... :)

But she know i love my audio system much then approve me without saying it too much openly....

By the way one of the most precious thing to have is a room only dedicated to the audio system.... With this you can made many improvement which are impossible in a normal room used for socializing reason....

for example for the active acoustical controls:

a- I use a grid of active metal resonator (50)
b- I use 20 Helmholtz bottles of different sizes
c- I use a grid of connected stones and crystals
d- I use a grid of cheap 10 Schumann Generators modified with crystals and stones...
e- I use a grid of 90 little bells or cones of 2 different sizes(7mm or 9 mm)

and many others things like passive acoustic materials etc....

I also has modified all the main electrical grid of my house.... :)
A fun note...

The mass of concrete i added was bricks and slab of concrete... Around 80 pound more than 75 i think... The look is disguised with homemade resonators glued to the slabs... I will lie if this can be described as beautiful.... This look more like a " mad scientist lair" improvised apparatus.... My speakers are modified with stones and cables and little resonators etc.... My little children are baffled by the look tough.... :)
I put 75 pounds of concrete on top of my Mission Cyrus 30 pounds speakers....With great success....

My wife dont have access to my audio room and dont want to either.... :)