DIY speaker isolation base for a wood floor

People in little places , and theres billions of them. Wouldnt fit these in there places . I feel a strong spousal dispute. 

blueranger,

Quick calc says your resonant frequency is about 6Hz. That does not feel right, but perhaps geoff can check my math. I was assuming 134lbs (2x granite + speakers). That do a pretty good job at isolating most stuff over 20Hz (will be down 10x at 20Hz). Another slab of granite is not going to make much of a difference in the isolation.

Thanks audiozenology. I'm going through the myriad of springs Fastenal carries. So I should pick one that approaches its max spring capacity? They do have some in stock that has a mx bearing of 57 lbs each. Should I get those?

The argument for isolating speakers from structural vibration. isolation is a two way street. ↕️

“Max Townshend has a theory as to why they have so much effect and that’s that micro tremors in the ground are greater in amplitude than the amount of movement in a loudspeaker cone. I wrote about it here a couple of years ago but essentially there is a continuous movement in the ground produced by the earth itself and increased by factors like road traffic and even sea waves. This might seem far fetched but it’s difficult to establish why isolating a speaker should be quite as beneficial as it is. In my system the equipment is supported on a similar isolation system, so it’s not as if you are reducing the amount of vibration getting to the hardware. Townshend’s demonstrates this effect by putting tablet computers on two identical speakers, each device running an app that reveals vibration at different frequencies. One speaker is spiked the other on a Seismic Podium, all you have to do is tap the floor with your foot to see how much the spiked speaker moves, and conversely how still the isolated one stays. And if music is played through another system the spiked speaker vibrates but the isolated one doesn’t, so one reason why isolation helps is that the music itself vibrates the floor and creates a low level form of feedback.”