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What I was told was...

Posted by bartc (A) on November 11, 2005 at 06:17:14

In Reply to: Temporary speaker to stands to floor isolators. posted by johnvb on November 11, 2005 at 05:06:46:

..couple to the floor, but decouple from the stand. I won't vouch for that advice, however, as some like coupling, some like isolation. I like a softer coupling system.

Best I've found is to put my speakers on footers of hardwood. In my case I started with maple dowel plugs as advised from Mapleshade. It worked very well and sounded better than isolation or hard coupling with metal. Then moved up to hardwood spherical sections I got at a hobby store (think like a drawer knob but without any stem), which worked very very well and was smoother. Lately added a thin layer of 1" Herbie's dots between the speaker and that hardwood and that is even better. Have been advised that Herbie's black dots - really a sandwich isolation footer - is very good.

Only question for me is why you think you're going to get best bass tightening by this method. Bass issues are often room acoustics and placement issues.

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