Spikes works best it they can be tightened down completely - and if more than 3 spikes making sure that they properly adjusted so there is no "rocking" - IMO this tightens the bass - improves image etc.
Good Listening
Peter
Good Listening
Peter
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Too many variables in play to recommend a specific approach. The design of the speakers - port in the bottom/front/rear, weight, type of the floor (what's right below the speaker, next layer, etc.), height of the rug, etc., etc. What works for me may and probably will not work for you. Rule of thumb; couple with concrete floor and decouple/isolate from suspending floor. My experience FWIW. |
What you are doing with the vibrapods is adding mechanical damping to the speaker cabinets. I have been working on this issue for a while doing constrained damping. In my case this is sorbothane glued to the cabinet with the sorb covered with 4 layers of electrical tape. The effects are amazing. Similar things are being done with headphones. Sennheiser used some kind of polymer damping material in the headband of its top models and I would imagine the same for their big bucks electrostat Grado uses a special polycarbonate and there are several other phones and speakers working in this line. I have my own solutions using sorbothane worked out for Stax phones. That's for another post. You can see some of the history here https://www.head-fi.org/threads/damping-mechanical-energy-distortion-of-stax-and-other-phones-with-s... I fully expect the area of damping to develop and make other current phones and speakers obsolete. (however one can to post-hoc modifications with sorbothane to just about anything). Getting back to the original point, I would still say that you have given up some performance from the spiking although obviously you are finding the footers much more effective. However what I am suggesting is keeping the advantages of spiking and damping. They are both aimed at getting rid of cabinet vibration. |
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