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Footers under my speakers double the perceived value of my speakers!

My first experience with putting footers under my speakers was with Tannoy Westminster Royals.
With some difficulty, I put Mapleshade heavy footers under them. I was amazed. These $20k speakers, all of a sudden, became $30+ speakers! These days, I am into Stillpoints. Same thing-even more. My $30k speakers now sound like $60k speakers. I mean the imaging, the definition, the bass and everything just sounds fantastically Improved. I just put on the Stillpoints yesterday. This morning I jumped out of bed early just to be able to turn on the stereo and be floored. BTW- my speakers are 200 lbs and the Stillpoints Minis are strong enough. Pretty cheap for such an improvement!
mglik
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roxy54
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"Is "insipid" the word of the day?"

Apparently. And it was a misuse at that.  
douglas_schroeder
3,281 posts
 
Correct use of the word which expresses my displeasure with such methods failing my Law of Efficacy. 
If I wished to express that I thought there was no benefit to stands I would have chosen a word such as ineffectual. My point is not that such devices do nothing, but that they do nothing much that could be accomplished more economically, and do not much compared to working within the power and signal paths. 


knotscott
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It makes sense to couple speakers to a solid slab, and isolate them from a resonate floor. Every situation is a bit different.

Spikes through the carpet to a concrete floor made a pretty notable improvement with several different speakers in my old room. Now that I have a carpeted plywood floor with joists under it, I’m hearing more floor resonance, and need to experiment with isolation or even shoring up the joists underneath.
audiopoint
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Hello Douglas_ Schroder,

All vibration management devices and claims of functionality are based on theorems. There are no known science backing audio’s vibration management systems. There is no Third-Party Independent Testing that quantifies or validates any products function, so I understand how your opinions on this topic are crafted.

Regards to power and signal paths; they both deteriorate in operational inefficiency due to resonance buildup formed by vibrations. The loss of efficiency begins at the AC panel and propagates throughout all mechanical, electromechanical and acoustic pathways of the system’s entirety.

You prefer to build audio systems where our direction involves building the foundations that support the system and mechanically grounded structural listening environments along with a few successes in the world of musical instruments.

This might be an opportunity for us to learn, make a few comparisons and help each other through the process of experimentation and listening. We use a new technology where the focus is transferring resonance out and away from the equipment (at high-speed) improving the product's operational efficiency.

The evidence that our theorem of resonance transfer is functional beyond the hearing phase is the evident reduction in operating temperatures within electronic components.

We can send you a couple platforms to prove that your equipment has far more musical qualities then what you are currently hearing. To us, being a bit biased, the platform's level of importance is equal to or greater than choosing the next speaker or component or cable.

The stand you choose to own plays heavily into everything you purchase in the future. After all, only a few will ever audition or compare the performance of racking and/or speaker stands. The differences in material science, functional design and sonic results are reasonably stunning and, in our case, quite unexpected.  

Give me a call should you wish to expand our horizons.

Robert

Star Sound



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twoleftears
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There are so many possibilities.

If you have a suspended floor with standard joists, OSB, underlayment and carpet, and then put an offcut of granite on top of that, should be speaker be "spiked" to the granite, with just the points touching?  Isoacoustics Gaias?  Or?

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