Very interesting and thanks for sharing. Love that these are so cost effective and I’ll definitely check these out at some point. My understanding is that spikes are more for preventing vibrations from getting to the floor rather than providing isolation, and given their poor measured performance here this would seem to bear that out. Isolation/damping sure makes a lot more sense to me and really makes me wonder why speaker manufacturers almost universally use spikes. It would seem even budget isolation feet would be an improvement over spikes and would be a good question for a speaker manufacturer.
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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I used SVS SoundPath isolation feet while I was waiting for these to arrive. Anything was better than spikes because of that intense focusing of vibration going through the spikes. If you look at loudspeakers from $2000 to $30000 more and more are shipping with isolation footers now rather than spikes. Some people believe you need the spikes on carpet, and in some ways I buy that sentiment, but the beauty of the Tough Nut Cones is that they are pointy enough to work perfectly on carpet. |
@audiotruth mine are on carpet. Picture in my virtual system. |
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