Townshend Springs under Speakers

@prof

Your experience with Townshend is yours alone. Share specifically how they were used etc… When you do this we all benefit. Nothing in audio is absolute. A product works wonderfully in one situation and not another for a host of reasons, some understood and some not.

The attitude behind a post, how something is said, is very important. If something did not work for you, but does for me there is no reason for you, or other tag along posters who have not even tried the product, to speculate negatively about another person or experience.

Again, there are no absolutes here as the variables at play are too numerous and divergent. Readers here will learn from the aggregate of poster experiences shared on this forum.

I was wrong about your actual experience with these footers under electronics and apologize for that. I am always interested in all user experiences, both positive and negative, on a given product. This is precisely why this forum can be very helpful.

@tsushima,
2am“ But in the audiophile Zealot world, the only subjective experience that counts is someone who claims positive results. Negative results never count against a claim , are to be ganged up upon and belittled “

Regrettably true.
J
@prof, @grannyring and @Holmz, I appreciate the respectful/thoughtful exchanges and not resorting to childish attacks.
Charles

Technically it was the inconsistent unbelievable story-telling that was shown to be inconsistent and unbelievable. I am on record over and over again always believing anyone who says they can't hear. Never argue with someone telling you they can't hear. They know what they're talking about. 

Would that the reverse were true.

Ah, the Golden Ears response strikes again.

"I can hear angels singing when I replaced my amp fuses. You can’t? Oh, that’s because you can’t hear. But you’ll just have to take my unverifable opinion that it isn’t my imagination, so I can Lord It Over You without having to give an ounce of proof for my claim."

Millercarbon, do you make your living actually working in sound professionally?

I do. Both for film and TV and I’ve recorded music in studios. I record and manipulate sound all day long.


You can’t get away with bullshit claims when other pros are there to check your work. (And it’s not like, for instance, selling high end gear to impressionable laymen).



I just finished literally matching the air tones from the scene of one room to another, barely picked up in the dialogue track. If I get it wrong, I’ll hear about it.


I just carefully manipulated the sounds of gently falling snow. Alsohad to cut together several different dogs, from different recordings, minutely manipulating the timbre and EQ of each and selecting just the right bits, so it could be used for a single dog and the listener won’t know it.



Right now I am finely balancing a session with 30 stereo tracks and 36 mono tracks. Which is a modest show - I’ve done movies with twice that number of tracks. Balancing so that each element is playing a part, some just barely heard.


And if I couldn’t do this all day every day, and if someone has a sonic idea, or a complaint, and I didn’t understand the nature of sound in order to produce what is required, I’d be out of a job.


Some audio reviewer friends say my ears are betterfor identifying characteristics in gear they review than theirs. Further, sometimes musicians I know bring over their mastering choices to my place where they ask me to help them go over sometimes minute differences in deciding what to go with or fix.



So, go ahead, on an audiophile forum you can play the Golden Ears game. That wouldn't get you far in my world.  It’s laughable if you are implying a lack of acuity because I didn’t hear anything with a footer under my amp. Some of us do sound for a living, we don’t just play at it.