Townshend Springs under Speakers

Questfor hifi, I seriously doubt a 2 year old is going to knock a blade over.
Punch a hole in a woofer maybe. There is also ripping the midrange cone out by the fins. If you let them prance around naked she might wee on one. While she is prancing around your need to get movies of her to show at her wedding reception. 

Blades are great speakers. They are a balanced force design and should shake very little with bass. I would spend the money on a better tonearm or cartridge. If you want to know how much resonance your floors and walls pass on turn the system up and listen to the floor in the next room with a stethoscope. What you hear is it. You can also tell how well your tonearm and cartridge are doing by listening to the cartridge track with the preamp off. You should hear is absolutely nothing. What you do hear is resonance passed on or rather poorly controlled. Do listen to the floor. If you do get the podiums listen to the floor again and tell us if there is any difference. 

yea i dont think she could tip them either its more of a paranoid wife thing. and your correct about its design its extremely ridged with side firing woofers designed to cancel out and eliminate cabinet resonance. I posted right before clicking buy and was made an offer from the seller

One thought though is that perhaps an extremely ridged and dense/sturdy cabinet might actually make these products more useful because they have no flex/absorption of outside resonance.

I read a few blade owners wow about the gaias. I just know my wife hates the spikes and the way they look (on wood floors) and wants me to go bare from platform to floor so i was looking for a solution. Trying to be kind to her i bought these speakers without even telling her in the first place
 
I dont know....

In fact, IsoAcoacustics actually demo’d the Gaia 1s on the blades

https://isoacoustics.com/gaia-1-demos-at-vpi-industries/

“Installing the GAIA isolators on my KEF Blades gave the biggest improvement in sound I have ever heard on the system. Better than changing cables or electronics, the noise floor was lower, the focus was better, and the bass went deeper. All around a total success.”


and here is what a reliable user from another forum had to say about the townshend:

"I managed to pick up the Townshend seismic platform for my KEF Blades for less than what the Gaia i’s would have cost. Now given the amount of effort KEF has already gone to in making the cabinet inert (you really can leave a £1 coin on the top for weeks whilst it plays Prodigy at insane levels), I wasn’t expecting much of a change.

It was simply profound - as significant (maybe more?) than changing my whole digital front end + source + its PSUs.

I clearly understand nothing about this "hobbie".

Previously had Soundcare Superspikes - which were definately an improvement over the stock KEF spikes."

For some reason these products are extremely popular for my speaker in particular. Starting to think more ridged = more benefit

They are surely going to bring some noticeable gains when installed to speakers which are previously coupled to the floor with spikes of all sorts, and the difference can be quite dramatic. After trying the Isoacoustics Gaia on my speakers,, I can now understand the enthusiasm on the benefits of proper speaker isolation.

Good luck in whatever you choose for your Kef Blades.

Podiums are a serious improvement regardless of what was used before. They are much better than ordinary springs like Nobsound. Several here have upgraded to them from Gaia and feel they are well worth the extra. So it is not just the isolation, but the vibration control aspect of springs that control resonance with tuned damping.     

questforhifi, You might want to read your own post again.

"I managed to pick up the Townshend seismic platform for my KEF Blades for less than what the Gaia i’s would have cost. Now given the amount of effort KEF has already gone to in making the cabinet inert (you really can leave a £1 coin on the top for weeks whilst it plays Prodigy at insane levels), I wasn’t expecting much of a change.

It was simply profound - as significant (maybe more?) than changing my whole digital front end + source + its PSUs.

and

Previously had Soundcare Superspikes - which were definately an improvement over the stock KEF spikes." 

So your "reliable user" started with KEF spikes, found Soundcare spikes were definitely an improvement, and then was shocked to hear "profound improvement" with Townshend Podiums.  

Sounds to me like the least rigid came out best, and by a lot.  

More rigid is definitely not better.