Huh? As Townshend points out on his web site, and as I’ve pointed out as well, isolating the speakers has two advantages:
(1) it prevents low frequency vibration from getting up into the speakers and affecting wiring and electronics, RCA connectors, etc. and (2) it prevents speaker cabinet vibrations from feeding back via the floor to system cabling on the floor, electronics, turntable, CD player, what have you. That’s also, by no coincidence, what my springs do for medium-size speakers and Subwoofers. All theoretical advantages only. Again, the raison d'etre of this thread. |
Further to the speaker room interface I wonder if my room, being an Art Noxon design intended to be sound isolating (i.e with bass traps and damping built into the walls) may be less conducive to a SS type "grounding" arrangement in so far as the excess energy has no easy path to ground and hence causes problems in the room. That is an interesting question. What does Art use for dampening again? My hunch is it would work just fine as demonstrated by the video of an 18 inch sub fed 1400 watts and spitting out 104dB. I know people who use Sistrum racking with rooms like yours. That would be a question for Robert. My room is a hybrid design in that sense. I have greenglue sandwiches of drywall floating on an isolation clip system engineered by Cascade Audio on the external walls and ceiling along with spray foam insulation for noise reduction purposes. Corners and waveguide elements use sand and/or foam insulation. The internal walls use the SS constructs only. |
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Huh? As Townshend points out on his web site, and as I’ve pointed out as well, isolating the speakers has two advantages:
(1) it prevents low frequency vibration from getting up into the speakers and affecting wiring and electronics, RCA connectors, etc. and (2) it prevents speaker cabinet vibrations from feeding back via the floor to system cabling on the floor, electronics, turntable, CD player, what have you. That’s also, by no coincidence, what my springs do for medium-size speakers and Subwoofers. All theoretical advantages only. Again, the raison d'etre of this thread.
Agear -- are you bent on simply ignoring all evidence to the contrary and pimping SS above all else? As I and many others have observed and attested to these effects are far from theoretical, they are real and the impact of addressing them (via suspended or spring solutions) is real and profound |
agear OP: "decouple the speakers from the room which I guess can be an advantage depending on room nodes, etc"
Geoffkait:Depending on room nodes? Huh? What on Earth are you referring to?
to which Agear replied,
"Not anything to worry about with your Walkman...."
That’s what I thought. You don’t even know what isolation is. Let the insults fly!
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