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Subwoofer Footing - Connect or Isolate?

What is considered the best way to "foot" a subwoofer, should one try to connect it with the floor or isolate it? I have a REL 7i that I have firmly coupled to my wood floor with the weight of a 42 lb curling stone, mainly because it looks cool. Would some sort of isolation be better and reduce resonance from the floor, or could the connection with the floor help "drain" resonance from the subwoofer cabinet?
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ps
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A REL engineer told me that the only thing I might want to try is some BlueTak under each foot. But with or without the ’Tak, he said the sub will perform properly on my hardwood floors over a crawl space using the T5 as REL designed it. I tried the BluTak, and in my room, but while I could discern no dramatic differences, I left it on the sub feet because, well, it’s just sooo sticky. :)

I suspect that REL knows how to build subwoofers a heckuva lot better than I do.
ps
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Are there any subwoofer manufacturers who provide a set of tuned springs with their speakers?
ps
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I'm with oldhvymec on this one. The only thing that made listening to my stereo system remotely tolerable was to move the house off its existing foundation, remove the foundation, excavate a 35' x 45' x 15' deep pit,
fill it with rock and rebar and pour a bazillion truckloads of concrete into the fill it. The new audiophile foundation cost me plenty, you can be sure of that.

That's why my REL T5 does not need special footers or even springs.
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