Maggies moved 6 inches...big improvement

Cwlondon...I think that it results from being well away from all boundries, walls, floor and ceiling. The best setup I heard involved a huge room (barn really) where the Maggies were hung about 40 percent of the way into the room. (Near the center).

Suspended speakers, Maggies and others, do not move due to playing music. The idea that they do is a myth. Theoretical analysis will show this, but if you still don't believe try suspending a speaker (as I have) and actually observe what happens when you play music. (Nothing).

Suspended speakers can swing as a result of being bumped or blown by wind. For any reasonable length of suspension rope such motion will be at a frequency lower than 1 Hz, and will not interfere with musical frequencies. Compare with the movement of musical instruments which occurs as the performers play them.

Tympanis would be more difficult to hang than most speakers.

Eldartford, (AKA Judge Roy Bean)

The Hangin' Judge !

Maggies and any other speakers that break the law .....watch out !

Depending on your ceiling height moving this tall speaker upward,bringing the top closer to the ceiling more in balance, will result in near equal coupling at floor and ceiling.Less chance of cancellation. A speaker that is not direct coupled to the supporting surface will have phase errors at multiple frequencys. Easy to hear.Can you see your tweeters move at 3k..Photos have shown that a speaker cabinet's movement while being played is greater than the excursion of the tweeter in that same speaker cabinet. Of course this speaker is at ease on carpet not hanging in thinner air certainly not direct coupled to a surface allowing for proper phase launch.Tom

Theaudiotweak...The 3000Hz tweeter to which you refer has a voice coil that pushes one way on its dome and the other way on a speaker enclosure. You ask us to believe that it moves the 40 pound enclosure more than the half-ounce dome. Obviously you have never heard of Isaac Newton.

Perhaps you are thinking of the woofer moving the enclosure that the tweeter is mounted in. Although the woofer cone is heavier than the tweeter dome, the mass of the enclosure still dominates.

If you want to worry about HF being corrupted by LF vibration think about how HF (say 1500 Hz) is generated by a mid/woofer cone that is simultaneously vibrating with large amplitude at 150 Hz. I believe this is called "Dopler distortion".

The walls of some speaker enclosures do vibrate, but primarily as a result of internal pressure from the woofer. The vibration amplitude is much less than the cone excursion, but there is a lot more area of the enclosure, and significant spurious sound can result. Heavy enclosure walls, internal bracing, and, best of all, curved walls will stiffen the enclosure walls and solve this problem.

The ratio of moving mass to total mass, in Eldartford's spkrs is very low... so there's little fear of energy loss in his case (were loss of a case).

On topic, raising the spkrs has reduced floor bounce and probably helped "clear" lower mids -- and thereby, this effect daisy-chained upward. Good to know!