Monitor users, isolation?

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

There are coupling devices that are designed to be directional much like a mechanical diode. Meaning they will reject low frequencies passing thru the structure of your home or apartment. Keep in mind that this low frequency hash is poluting your electronics as well. It will modulate transformes, tubes, transports as well as all the circuit boards along the way. What this means is the music you are trying so hard to accurately reproduce is being infiltrated by the noise you are sucessfully traping. Even without any external help from the neighborhood, all electronic and mechanical devices produce and have the capacity to store their own noise. This will be regenerated along with the music. One way in and no way out is not the remedy. Tom

I use Herbies big dots, three each speaker, between my Dynaudio Special 25's and Dynaudio stands. I like them a lot, very stable, sound nice, and I don't have to mar the speaker veneer with the spikes.

Symposium Rollerblocks double stacked between my monitors and their stands. This is a very significant improvement in sound.