@bluemoodriver,
"Someone should tell Russ Andrews that doing the opposite and floating the speaker on springs and bellows would have the same positive effect of better “bass definition and greater clarity”, but with a much better profit margin."
Now, now, don’t give him any more ideas.
Russ seems to be an advocate of coupling as opposed to isolating. This is indicated by his preference of multilayered wooden designs which he calls Torlyte.
If he was to suddenly change his mind after all these decades, his customers might want a very good reason as to why.
Anyway if you fancy reading the words of a very slick and experienced salesman here’s the link below. Beware, he is quite skilled at telling a story and feels no shame in name-dropping Isaac Newton or attempting to conjure up images of the Neolithic ’ice man’ found in the Alps, or the natural sound of wood etc.
What you won’t find though is any hard evidence or data to back up his story.
https://www.russandrews.com/the-torlyte-story/
Whatever the truth might be there’s no denying that speaker isolation is an increasingly large business. There are already numerous cheap foam based supports being offered on Amazon currently.
Some of them used by seemingly satisfied customers, especially for subwoofers.
There is also another side to this issue of isolation, namely that it could all just be mainly an attempt to ameliorate the effects of poor cabinet design / placement.
I certainly suspect that this is at least partially the case with my 1970s Tannoy Berkeley’s with their largely unstuffed and unbraced interiors. You could say it’s a very 1970s sound - large, dynamic, warm with a cake like tendency to bloat.
So until we get some data feedback for different speakers on different surfaces and in different rooms, isolation is likely to remain one of those try it see for yourself operations.
As for anecdotal evidence in favour of isolation, well there does seem to be a growing amount.
"Someone should tell Russ Andrews that doing the opposite and floating the speaker on springs and bellows would have the same positive effect of better “bass definition and greater clarity”, but with a much better profit margin."
Now, now, don’t give him any more ideas.
Russ seems to be an advocate of coupling as opposed to isolating. This is indicated by his preference of multilayered wooden designs which he calls Torlyte.
If he was to suddenly change his mind after all these decades, his customers might want a very good reason as to why.
Anyway if you fancy reading the words of a very slick and experienced salesman here’s the link below. Beware, he is quite skilled at telling a story and feels no shame in name-dropping Isaac Newton or attempting to conjure up images of the Neolithic ’ice man’ found in the Alps, or the natural sound of wood etc.
What you won’t find though is any hard evidence or data to back up his story.
https://www.russandrews.com/the-torlyte-story/
Whatever the truth might be there’s no denying that speaker isolation is an increasingly large business. There are already numerous cheap foam based supports being offered on Amazon currently.
Some of them used by seemingly satisfied customers, especially for subwoofers.
There is also another side to this issue of isolation, namely that it could all just be mainly an attempt to ameliorate the effects of poor cabinet design / placement.
I certainly suspect that this is at least partially the case with my 1970s Tannoy Berkeley’s with their largely unstuffed and unbraced interiors. You could say it’s a very 1970s sound - large, dynamic, warm with a cake like tendency to bloat.
So until we get some data feedback for different speakers on different surfaces and in different rooms, isolation is likely to remain one of those try it see for yourself operations.
As for anecdotal evidence in favour of isolation, well there does seem to be a growing amount.