What Are Your Experiences with Decoupling Products and Your Recommendations?

HELLO!!!!!

I recommend and use Herbie's "Fat Dots" to couple my Harbeth's to Sound Anchor stands.  However, I strongly preferred coupling Sound Anchor stands with supplied steel spikes to the concrete slab floor over carpet vs. using Herbie's Gliders, as there was a noticeable loss in transparency and imaging with the gliders.  YMMV.

CRITICAL MASS CENTER STAGE 2 feet are the worlds best.Anybody using them??

Most audio equipment comes fitted with rubber feet. That's just as well as rubber is a great isolator, offering hundreds of times better isolation than spikes. Whether audio equipment need isolation is another matter entirely. 

Loudspeakers are where it makes a difference for me and I'm happy to use 70 durometer sorbothane hemispheres. Without any hard evidence I'd say the sorbothane generally improves the bass end and lower mids. Most noticeably the bass starts to pop out and play tunes.

I'm sure that Herbie's footers or other isolators would work just as well. I doubt whether it matters too much to get the resonant frequency down as far as possible. It could even be  

Many loudspeakers start to roll off around 40Hz and almost any form of isolation will get you well below that. Even a few strips of rubber will do that. 


pdreher,

I wonder whether the Herbie's gliders under your stands would have worked better as the carpet settled underneath.

In normal use the bass speaker cone should not be able to overcome inertia and cause the speakers to rock significantly, but maybe in your case on top of very wobbly carpet they did, just enough to lose a touch of focus and transparency as in your case.

I guess it might a case of balancing maximum isolation against compromising stability. Too much isolation (excessive wobble) must be counter productive.

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I guess it might a case of balancing maximum isolation against compromising stability. Too much isolation (excessive wobble) must be counter productive.

>>>>>>Uh, there is no excessive Wobble when isolating a component. There should be no wobble at all. And there is no such thing as too much isolation. If the component moves it’s not isolated properly. That’s the whole point. They wouldn’t have been able to observe gravity waves that have amplitudes on the order of an atomic particle if the optics of the LIGO project wobbled. If a microscope isolation stand wobbled you wouldn’t be able to see what’s under the microscope. Hel-loo!