Vibration - What are the Main Sources?

@carpathian

I believe the premise is that the speakers are resting motionless on the springs at a specific tension and the function of the spring is to isolate/dissipate vibration.

So the premise is whatever energy would make the speakers move is dissipated through the springs and the tweeter and woofer do not move?

I believe the springs are to isolate the speakers not from their own vibrations, but those from external sources. If the tweeter and woofer did not move, you would have one quiet speaker!

The goal is to isolate the speakers from interacting with the floor. When that happens the vibrating floor essentially becomes part of the speaker typically resulting in muddy bass and obscured midrange and detail. Suspended plywood floors found commonly in modern homes in particular are problematic in this way.
Springs under the speakers might work fine though they do not provide a firm foundation for the speakers to operate on. Might produce some interesting results but have never tried. I personally use isolation pads and stands, not springs. I do have some spring loaded feet under my dac but don’t think they are critical for that.

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If the tweeter and woofer did not move, you would have one quiet speaker!

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There is just mids and highs being used in my monitors, and they are small planars and ribbons in a 425 # HDF cabinet. There’s not much moving, especially the cabinet, the forward baffle has a convex taper from 12.5 to less than 6" wide.

It doesn’t even collect distortion very well.
I still isolate the cabinet from the floor and don’t use the bass section at all. Haven’t for years.. BASS belongs in another cabinet.. Subs are already in their own cabinet.

How do you mechanically time align bass drivers in the same cabinet as the mids and highs.. You can’t... At least I never could.. Sub frequencies forget it... they are WAY out of alignment with the main monitors, much less the whole vibration thing..

Regards

If the tweeter and woofer did not move, you would have one quiet speaker!

hahahaha yes, silent