Townshend Springs under Speakers

Isolation below speakers works from my experience...but it greatly varies from speaker to speaker and from room to room.

I don’t believe that one product/solution has to be denigrated in order to support the other.

+1 - Unfortunately that's not the way some folks on here decide to roll.  It seems that someone always has to be right at the expense of others who are targeted as being "wrong".  I so much appreciate your voice of reason, maturity and sanity @charles1dad 

Hate to be mysterious and confusing but it really is like Mia said and all kidding aside it really is quite tiresome.

Obviously this can only be made less confusing if more YouTube clips are posted.  

@audiopoint

Millercarbon, this speaker ringing thing has me perplexed and word has it that you appear to be or are about to become a dealer or their new US representative for the English spring-based company

This is quite an assertion and you’d better make sure it’s actually true before committing that to type. Even MC’s ethics I believe are above pumping a product for many months shortly before he becomes a dealer. This would be quite disappointing if true so I wouldn’t speculate if that’s what you mean by "word has it".

Hopefully MC can simply set the record straight and deny this is true.

Hopefully MC can simply set the record straight and deny this is true.

@millercarbon states:

Its true. ;) There is ringing. Also no matter what happens the haters will see it only in the worst possible light. Definitely.

Ugh. Ethics to hell. I despise this behavior as much as stock brokers who engage in front-running. Not necessarily illegal but so ethically icky.

@tobes and @rix  I agree with much of what you both said.  A couple of points:

1) I like the Townshend Seismic pods that I bought last year.  I think they perform well and are priced fairly.  In no way have I ever flamed their products but I do know that others have and shouldn't do so if the basis is simply a personal grievance with MC.  

2) While I suspect MC didn't necessarily know or even contemplate a year ago he was going to become a dealer he certainly did know at some point days, weeks, months ago - at which point he should have disclosed this fact amidst all the product gushing.  In my view, once he knew he was becoming a dealer he should have made that ethical disclosure.  I suspect every other dealer of products on this forum would agree.

The hypocrisy is that MC ridiculed forum members for providing positive comments to @rixthetrick, citing that we "all got played" by him and hardy har har comments....all because it turns out Rix is going to be bringing speakers to market soon. In the meantime MC somehow claims to maintain the ethics of Gandhi after having conditioned hundreds of forum members to lust after Townshend springs for the past year simply to tee up the proclamation that he’s becoming their US dealer. These are just facts, not opinion. Nearly every other dealer on this forum has the class, business ethic, and decency to make full disclosure on products they support with a business relationship.

@rix 

I was a little surprised that MC publicly announced my intention to build speakers in the US, in such a manner, a model as yet not designed.

It was retaliation for providing your honest impressions of what MC's system and speakers sounded like during your visit.  I wasn't surprised.

MC confirmed below what I've long suspected has been his true motivation behind everything he does in life - to have the largest audience possible

I wouldn’t have near the audience without their constant bickering keeping me front and center.

What kind of a person craves an audience?  What kind of needs are fulfilled by such a person?  I think we all know the answer to this.

Could see my listening room transforming into a highly selective by-appointment boutique audio salon.

https://i.postimg.cc/VLX7j62m/MC.jpg

Yes, your room clearly fills a void in the market that shockingly has been overlooked.

point taken @theaudiotweak . It was just a random compare/contrast. There are numerous examples of highly attractive showroom with good acoustic treatment. "Boutique audio salon" was the phrase I was reflecting on and the customers one is hoping to attract.

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