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.
@jrareform In the link the OP provided the reviewer compared these to Gaia and subjectively preferred the Tough Nut footers in addition to them measuring better overall. |
@soix nice I didn't get a chance to watch that so I appreciate that info! |
@audiotruth - great find. Thanks for sharing. |
Thanks for your post and comments. I went down this path 2 months ago and purchased the Townsend Seismic Podiums. During the process I had some correspondence withTough Nut. Very nice people and I found their products to be of interest. The Townsend’s convinced me about Isolation Vs Spikes and now I’m a believer. My plan is to get some Tough Nut products to try for component and rack isolation. Compared to most other products they are definitely less expensive. The bottom line is I’ll have to try them see how they perform. So any comments are greatly appreciated. Cheers , Mike B. |
