Equipment Rack

Audiopoint wrote,

"Wow, as I’m finishing up with this post, I just read your latest one liner with regards to one of our members! Believe me Mr Kate, you do not want to compare your career to hers nor do you want to go head to head in a science debate as that would just be wasting the lady’s time."

I am definitely wasting MY time debating you. Since you don’t know what my career is you’re just pissing up a rope. Bring the seismologist on. Let’s rock! ;-).  One of our members? You take a lot for granite! ;-)

Then Audiopoint wrote,

"You obviously already know everything known to mankind or at least your ego believes you do. Gee, I thought your career would be higher up the ladder by now, proving that selling a bag of rocks will only take you so far. (just my personal opinion of course)."

Maybe be you should just stick to insults and sophomore jokes as that appears to be your strong suit. Leave the science to someone else.

Have a nice day

geoff kait
machina dynamics
no goats no glory

In my system it stays in the speakers. At least for the bass range. Before the podiums (Magico spikes to floor) i felt the bass through my floor (wood on concrete) after the podiums i do not feel anything through the floor only through the air. You kind of miss the floor based boom at first but its really a fake effect, good for sound effects but not something i experience at live acoustic concerts

others with more knowldge of springs (Geoff?) may comment on whether the setup transmits higher frequencies, it may

recognize all of this is with a very inert cabinet design, and no ports on my Magico Q3s.

Ps agear. Nice room, mine is a similar size and likewise complex design albeit a more traditional Art Noxon design for sound isolation and bass response, despite the small size it works well and behaves as yours seems to really disappearing into the recorded acoustic

I guess the question is what makes the speaker more efficient in propagating energy as sound.  It would be interesting to take dB measurements to see if you achieve the same room filling sound as lower settings on your VC.  That is what I have discovered with my SS racks (and room).  I have gotten profound results even with cheesy, Craigslist grade speakers.  One speakers designer I had over claimed that a $75 Pioneers on Starsound apprentice stands sounded better than many 10k audiophile speakers he had heard.       

Magicos cabinets are engineered better than most and could well highlight the Townsend gear better.  It would be interesting to see its effects on the typical painted Chinese MDF.

The room was a lot of fun to create but the formal reveal is still pending.  Clement Perry from Stereotimes is coming to review it once my system fiddling is complete.

You put a lot of energy and $ into your beautiful room and that was very smart.  My younger brother lives in Portland.  If I visit in the near future, I will have to swing by for a listen.   

ricred1, I would try Starsound Apprentice XL stands under your speakers.  That is the place to start.  Their technology has the most obvious impact on things that vibrate the most (rooms, subs, speakers.....)

Thanks to everyone for their comments. I've decided not to purchase anything. After what I've already spent, it may not be logical, but I can't spend 3-5K(or more) on equipment/speaker stands. I'm done!

The Apprentice stands are nowhere near that price tag.