Yes indeed. Funny you should ask.
Exactly. In a way, what this whole thread is about: trying things out.
Rick checked in at an opportune moment because this is right about the point where he comes in.
Up to this point I was pretty well convinced the key to vibration control was basically to clamp or fix things in place so they can’t move. When done with the right materials this definitely improves a lot of things. But as my system kept getting better and better there was this sense of a sort of hardness creeping in. Not an edge really just certain sounds were harder on the ears than it seemed they should be.
I now suspect this was due to ringing. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves here.
Rick it turns out is big on vibration control, has been working on this a long time, and is a big proponent of springs. Seemed like a waste but he was pleasant enough, and even better had a good argument: No matter what you do (the old-school cones/spikes way) vibrations are going to get into the floor, rack, shelf, etc. and then the whole speaker/floor/room system is vibrating. Well then if that is the case (which it is) then a lot of that energy is coming right back into the speaker, and its vibrating, only now not the way we want but in sympathy with the floor.
Worse, the same thing is feeding up into my precious turntable. Everything else too of course. So Rick is telling me springs under the speakers will be huge. First because the speakers themselves will sound better, and also because less vibration going into the floor means less into the rest of the system.
I look for truth from simple experiments
Exactly. In a way, what this whole thread is about: trying things out.
Rick checked in at an opportune moment because this is right about the point where he comes in.
Up to this point I was pretty well convinced the key to vibration control was basically to clamp or fix things in place so they can’t move. When done with the right materials this definitely improves a lot of things. But as my system kept getting better and better there was this sense of a sort of hardness creeping in. Not an edge really just certain sounds were harder on the ears than it seemed they should be.
I now suspect this was due to ringing. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves here.
Rick it turns out is big on vibration control, has been working on this a long time, and is a big proponent of springs. Seemed like a waste but he was pleasant enough, and even better had a good argument: No matter what you do (the old-school cones/spikes way) vibrations are going to get into the floor, rack, shelf, etc. and then the whole speaker/floor/room system is vibrating. Well then if that is the case (which it is) then a lot of that energy is coming right back into the speaker, and its vibrating, only now not the way we want but in sympathy with the floor.
Worse, the same thing is feeding up into my precious turntable. Everything else too of course. So Rick is telling me springs under the speakers will be huge. First because the speakers themselves will sound better, and also because less vibration going into the floor means less into the rest of the system.