Monitor users, isolation?

Blue-tack between the speaker bottom and the steel stand filled with sand on spikes . Each stand weighs @ 35lbs.

My monitors are usually shelf mounted. I place a 1/2 inch bamboo cutting board on top of the shelf and a thin layer of cork on top of that and then the speaker on top of that. Eats up vibrations very well (lots of truck and bus traffic in Queens).

With my floorstanders I do basically the same thing ... a 1 inch bamboo cutting board on top of the hardwood floor. On top of the cutting board is a 2" thick piece of Auralex acoustic foam. Eats up vibrations equally as well.

Regards, Rich

All approaches are decoupling the acoustic device from its environment. Vibration is the method by which we hear. Knowing how to reapply and direct that vibration is the key. Why kill what we try so hard to reproduce? How efficient can that be? The end user is the looser with all described above.. Tom

Tom:

Depending on where and how you live, you may need to decouple the speaker from its environment. Coupling a speaker to a floor doesn't make sense in an apartment setting as all that you have done is provide a larger area to disperse the vibrations across ... namely your neighbor's apartment. No surprise that there are quite a number of sub woofer complaints in most apartment buildings.

Additionally, on heavily trafficked streets, you do get regular shaking of furniture, including speakers, when buses and trucks pass by. How else do you propose dealing with this other than to isolate components, including speakers? Watching the pendulum on our grandfather clock move in a different patterm is a visible indication of what the floorstanding speakers must be experiencing.

Regards,

Rich