Townshend Seismic Podiums

Are there people who are still using spikes under speakers? When I first got into the hobby not long ago one of the first things I did was to purchase  isoacoustic footers, two speaker sets and two hockey puck sets for TT. Now I have two seismic pod sets also and am trying out some free resilient mounts, check those out too. This was all done after buying brass cones of which are in a drawer. I guess still-points are next. 

Personally, I think the pods are crazy and a total waste of money. The speakers should be mounted on quality heavy speaker stands filled with shot or atabites and spiked to a solid concrete slab floor. Blue tac should be added between stand and speaker bottom. to do anything else is overkill and not necessary. Springs under a turntable is also another obsurd idea. Why bother when you can just buy a Linn Sondek with a sprung suspension system....otherwise, a mass loaded turntable on a suitable turntable wall mounted shelf that is affixed to a solid concrete wall should suffice for vibration control.

don't believe me? - put a heavy dumbbell on your acoustics - the sound will deteriorate - it will become jammed ...

However, just like isolation produces a decolouration by helping to limit cabinet resonances, placing a tuned mass damper with absorbtion materials atop of the cabinet will realise equally a significant increase in performance.

@serjio - I know you didn't mean speaker cabinets, and your discussion has merit, I am just trying to point out one exception.

Tuned Mass Damper, some of you might want to look that up, those of you holding onto rigid methodologies. You can be stuck in the methods of the past, but once you have tasted superior engineering practices, make no mistake, you will go to church (so to speak).

@pengun & clearthinker - boing boing sounds abso-flaming-lutely glorious!