Townshend Audio Podiums - current owners opinion on the merits of this product

Piece of wood isn't going to change bass. Placing the speaker higher off the floor will obviously raise the woofer off the floor as well and that can certainly change tonality of the speaker sound. You don't need over priced piece of wood to do that. Buy a butcher board from IKEA.

I'm bit of a hypocrite I suppose since I am in the market for a pair of kenrick sounds stands for my JBL but they don't market them as anything but nice stands. I do not buy any of this reduce resonance stuff the marketing for Townshend claims. Sorry!

And pucks aren’t decouplers. Cut us a little slack. Decoupling type substances? Oh,you mean like Spam? The miracle in a can.

I installed the Townshend podiums in my system yesterday.  My brother who is musician / recording engineer thought the bass had tightened up and you could hear the plucking of the bass more distinctly, any haze was cleared up, the instrument placement was more defined and the sound stage increased.  He heard the same things I did.  So the system was improved and is sounding the best it has. 

@goose ,
+1, exactly what I heard when I used the Podium under my preamp.
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@garebear  - where are you on your search? 

I recently got a pair of Townshend Podiums for my Rockport Atria speakers - directly from England, so I wanted to provide you my experience/thoughts. What the owners have said in their posts above is what I'm experiencing.  My 150 lb speakers were on their original spikes w/ hats to protect my suspended wood floors.  I personally noticed a drastic improvement in sound. Crisp and detailed is how I would describe it - the boominess that  used to come from the floor went away and it was a more controlled/tighter bass.  To say that the bass disappears is completely false. The vocals are now dead-on coming from the center of my system.  Just based on the engineering of the podiums - the fact that it's floated, I would be skeptical of other footers that just act as barrier to vibration.  To me - this is the best isolation for speakers. I was also able to maneuver the speakers onto the platform by myself with the aid of two air-wedges that had the capability to lift up to 300 lbs - without those, it would have been a two person task. This was a suggestion provided by an owner who had posted a very detailed review here on A'gon.