Townshend Springs under Speakers

grannyring-

Well I have owned the Star Sound Sistrum and Townshend Pod products and have heard first hand the differences each approach has to the resulting sound. Speakers on a hard wood floor with crawl space under the house. The Star Sound Sistrum platforms were great. They tended to spotlight the highs and upper mids while speeding up and tightening the bass. Improved focus and inner detail. Less blurring of massed instruments.

The Townshend Pod products removed noise and made the music sound much more at ease and enjoyable. More natural if you will. They made the music more fun to listen to in my experience. That is how I experienced both methods of “isolation”. Just my experience and I realize this topic is more complex than my singular experience.

That is what I would expect just by looking at them. You’re a qualified reviewer in my book so there you go. If they want another one they are welcome to go ahead and send a set my way.

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 

@mitch2

“They call them Sound Anchor Stands”

I suppose that they make them for the 2Cs?

It seems like most of the people that like spikes and/or sound anchors seem to have cabinets that are not ringing and resonating?
I could easily imagine that people with “I’ll say better made” speaker cabinets, prefer spikes and mass to pin them spatially.And that the isolators may help actually people who’s cabinets tend to excite the floor.
I am in the first camp.

@three_easy_payments, Thank you for your kind comment, much appreciated.
@holmz,
"It seems like most of the people that like spikes and/or sound anchors seem to have cabinets that are not ringing and resonating?
I could easily imagine that people with “I’ll say better made” speaker cabinets, prefer spikes and mass to pin them spatially.And that the isolators may help actually people who’s cabinets tend to excite the floor.
I am in the first camp"

That certainty appears to be a contributing factor (Speaker cabinet construction and type of floor/surface they are sitting on). ) Seems what Richard Vandersteen was alluding to given his post testing comments and results  in his two seperate rooms. You have to give him credit for actually trying a product with his own speakers.
Charles

@charles1dad not sure if it was this thread or the other Townshend thread, but there was a Wilson speaker owner who found the Podiums a profound improvement over spikes.
I think Wilson would fall into the 'inert cabinet' group, so I think that busts your theory.