Survey on Cost of Loudspeakers Supported On Townshend Seismic Isolation Podiums

I have Monitor Audio Studio 50's on size 2 podiums. These retailed in the US at $8,000, but I picked mine up brand new as an "end of range" sale for £2k here in the UK. Managed to pick up the podiums for £1.2K. The speakers, which I still have are 22 years young and are now augmented by Townshend Super Tweeters.

Stands spiked through carpet to solid concrete seems to work just fine for me, I'll save my money and buy even more records.

I would think that if you are spending big money on a high end speaker that they (or at least should) already come designed and built with isolation in mind.  I've gotta believe that my S/F Liliums come engineered to eliminate resonance and all that stuff. I could research it, but to busy enjoying the music to dabble in it.

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I think your survey might lead you to the wrong conclusions…speaker isolation makes varying improvements depending on the flooring materials…also individuals who can afford expensive components also can afford expensive tweaks….

Somewhere on Richard Vandersteen’s site there’s a paper on the subject which echoes my own thoughts.

You want to minimize the contact area between the speaker and floor. You also want to secure the speaker from rocking against the force of the woofers. The motors are powerful, and the farther from the ground the easier time they’ll have moving the speaker back and forth and causing Doppler distortion.

This is why sometimes something as simple as adding significant weight to the top of a monitor will tighten up the bass.