ISO Pucks with Harbeth and Sklyan Stands

This is not a specific answer to your question regarding ISO pucks but more about my experience with stands for my Harbeth SHL5 models, the SHL5, SHL5 30th Anniversary and the SHL5+. I owned the various models for about 10 years. I first used the Skylan stands and thought they were OK but nothing special. I thought they produced muddy bass and mid-bass. I then went to the Something Solid XF stands which were a major improvement across the board.

After about 2 years I then moved on to the ridiculously expensive TonTrager’s at the suggestion of the importer. These stands bring out the best of the SHL5+ for the whole spectrum.This is just my opinion and YMMV. I have recently sold my Harbeth’s and moved on to Vandersteen Treo CT’s.

You may want to look at the Harbeth pages on Facebook as they have had many discussions on stands and footers for the Harbeth’s.

Good Luck!

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I've always preferred a hard interface between Harbeths and the stands, especially Skylans.  I used 3 or 4 casino chips and I thought the sound was more open.  But you have to try different things and see what works.  All dependent on your room and sonic preferences.  

No experience with either harbeth or skylan but I always prefer to decouple the speakers from the stands.  Iso acoustics work well.

A fun and informative test is to play some music fairly loud, with heavy bass or kick drums, and touch the speaker stand... is it vibrating?  Now put your speakers on isoacoustics and repeat.  The stand should not be vibrating at all.  Its good to fill the stands with play sand or lead shot if possible.  I’ve been able to fill pretty much every rack and stand I’ve come across.  Sometimes you have to get creative and cap off certain areas or use tiny screw holes to fill stands (which is time consuming and tedious but worth it).

Anyhow good luck!  Iso acoustics are great products in my oppinion.

When I had the Harbeth C7, I used Stillpoints Ultra SS between the speaker and my Sound Anchor stands.  They were extremely effective.  The only drawbacks are that they are expensive and it's easy to knock the speaker off the stand if you (or your kids/partner/dog/cat) bump it.