What your choice speakers with spikes or speakers with a vibration isolation device?

Miller carbon,

I really fell in love with the Townshend seismic podiums that the reader after me commented on. Those are the ones I really wanted but they’re very very expensive like 3K on speaker. So I had a machinist friend of mine make me a set that work with springs like the Townshend model. They work great the biggest difference I noticed was it seem to have cleaned up the base at large volumes. I understand what you’re saying about the speaker going one way and the box go on the other. For some reason it works just fine. I have a set of Tekton 4-10 subs that way 95 pounds each. I’ve got them standing vertically and at large volumes you don’t see the speaker move at all it just pops out music.
I don’t think it’s gonna be any different when I switch them over to this magnetic foot. I am fascinated that it floats there with just a steel pen to keep the magnets in line. Do you have the thing that was cool was they were only $140 per speaker. They have smaller ones for individual components, do you see a problem with floating a CD player in the air?

I am also on a wood floor like Larry above is. The effect I had was the same that he found, it made the base less Bhoomi and at higher volumes the isolation removed A distortion the fact that I was getting. Probably because the base was going through the subfloor and reverberating back up into the speaker enclosure. The towns in video explains this quite well.Here’s a link to all of his products.https://youtu.be/7ew4dRUEm-k

Here’s a link where the inventor goes into several science experiments and explanations of what you gain.

https://youtu.be/OZxi1oZfvDA

Here’s a short video where he talks about transfer of energy through concrete

https://youtu.be/BOPXJDdwtk4

finally here’s a great video that has some newton in it for Miller carbon!

https://youtu.be/dW9-r83IvhI

Geoffcait, I don’t have enough scientific chops to say either way. I would think that if the bungee cords still had some spring affect in them then it would be the same or better than a spring loaded solution on the floor. I have been fascinated with the line array speakers that you see at commercial venues. They make sense there I wonder if that idea will creep in to the home audio market. I guess somebody is going to have to figure out how to make it lookLast commercial and more homey

Delay,

‘’Tekton 4-10 subs (2) Onboard amps
‘Tekton  Moab  Speakers Mcintosh/caerver 275 bi amped
macintosh, mx122 pre, mb50 DAC,mpc1500 power, mac 1706 amp for surrounded speakers , Mac mvp 871 cd dvd, pine tree cabling thru-out

carpet over 3/4’ plywood on wood joist
room size 18 x 24. 8 ceiling 

dekay....What did you mean by this?
Think the manufacturer may also offer isolation stands for small desktop monitors.
 What did you mean by this?

Dekay,

 is this what you meant?https://solidairaudio.com/shop/hifi-isolation-platforms/ukishima-small-platform/

my mag lev feet Have arrived, I’ll install them and have a report soon.

The mag-lev feet are amazing! I removed the spring elevated feet that my friend made for me and replace them with the mag live feet. The range of base that these subs will take is even better than when I use the spring loaded feet. I was able to add more bass and deeper base then I expected. I put on some Earth wind and fire, turned up the volume and see what they would take. I added approximately 25% more volume into the sub and probably three more decibels from the lower range equalizer that comes built into the Macintosh MX122. It was near possible to get them to distort. I now have to figure out how I’m going to re-set my subs and higher end frequencies to get everything to rebalance. It’s pretty impressive what the coupling the speaker from the floor does to the speaker. It’s like it’s got a breath of fresh air and it breeds deeper. I’ll stop now I always hate it when guys go into goofy metaphors for how things sound. I highly recommend spending a couple hundred dollars and trying your speakers or subs D coupled,Worth every penny!

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that’s amazing you figured out exactly what I did. I reuse the spring one from the subwoofer and put them on the Moab. Both systems work great. The mag Lauv works excellent but is more expensive Van the spring version. I think they both sound exactly the same. If I had my choice I would stick with the spring version. It’s less expensive and sounds identical to the maglev. Both systems use a inexpensive speaker out rigger kit I found on Amazon. The springs are more work because you have to Epoxy the springs into the aluminum feet or else it tends to fall apart while you’re assembling the feet and turning the speakers back over. If you have any more questions just ask, you’re welcome to send me a personal message