Townshend Springs under Speakers


I was very interested, especially with all the talk.   I brought the subject up on the Vandersteen forum site, and Richard Vandersteen himself weighed in.   As with everything, nothing is perfect in all circumstances.  If the floor is wobbly, springs can work, if the speaker is on solid ground, 3 spikes is preferred.
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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.

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.

People having psychotic episodes, cease to hear voices when anti-psychotic medication is administered.
We should not automatically default to believing what they tell us, unless there is a way to verify it is extant in the physical world.
So it is perplexing to assume that one should default the Fox Moulder state of, “Wanting to believe” when there is a lack of evidence that we should believe it.

At best, without a way to measure and show that something is really there, then we might just have to agree to disagree?
I am not saying that you do not hear something. Just that there is no reason (as of yet) that has been shown that i too should be able to also hear it. Or maybe we have some hypothesis but less in the way of measurements shown that it exists.
@prof, well said.

While working early in my career as an editor (network television), I dealt with similar issues, e.g. matching room tone from edit to edit.

It requires careful listening and attention to detail. 

Those who don’t do it for a living have no idea.

Yes tvad.  It's a "they don't know what they don't know" scenario.

There's a whole lot more to understanding the characteristics of sound than believing Miles' trumpet sounds more burnished when you put your cables on a riser.