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Tough Nut Cones Isolation for loudspeakers, brilliant solution over spikes

I wanted to share with everyone an experience I had with trying to decide how to decouple my Arendal 1723 THX Monitors and their stands from the floor. 

Most of us know now that the days of thinking metal spikes were the best idea are over. It generates immense pounds per square inch of pressure into one point and all that energy is then transferred to the floor.... the last thing we want to do with speakers. Many mid-fi to high-end loudspeakers now ship with isolation footers/feet instead of spikes.
I happened across a FANTASTIC video from Jay's Iyagi:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32DrKCqLWkk&t=788s 
Immediately upon watching that video, based on measurements from Jay, I contacted Derrick at Tough Nut Cones in Canada. So for $170 per stand/speaker I bought the Medium Cones. Derrick and his wife were amazing to talk to and deal with. 
So I now have them installed.... the sound is truly brilliant. And the cones are just "pointy" enough that they work on both solid floors and carpeted floors (as I have) and they look really wicked under the stands.

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Interesting product range that seems to be rationally priced, including some nice looking audio racks.

Note they offer IsoAcoustics as an option for their audio racks.

I use IsoPucks between my Harbeth 40.3's and the Ton Trager stands. How much difference they really make I cannot tell - I moved houses, installed them immediately, then treated the new room a bit and it seems like to much work to a/b test them - surely they can't hurt.

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