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In Reply to: Isolating Verity Parsifals posted by hatari on June 6, 2007 at 18:42:43:
Isolating your speakers from a suspended floor will also have the benefit of cleaning up a lot of mid bass bloat, even if you don't think you have it! In almost all cases I have found the bass is left leaner and apparently faster, a little less mid-bass weight (bloat) and actually deeper reaching. Because of the loss of bloat it can sound light but try something with deeeeep bass rather than slam to check it.Now... the platforms.
Between the sorbothane feet(?) I doubt the granite adds too much harm, but ply or even MDF would probably be better. I have use woodworking shops to make me platforms with sides, kind of a tray that I can put the soft layers inside and have a ply bass which covers the foam(s). I had them made from MDF "veneered" with a ply sheet. IT looks good and by mixing different materials I MAY be helping there as well. Your sorbothane feet will probably work as well, at least within limits.
Set the bass on some cones or more soft footers. I use some I found which are designed for refridgerators and such to reduce the noise of motor vibration. Extremely cheap and good for quite heavy stuff like speakers. Set the speakers on the top... of the top, as it were.
Thus you have a sorbothane sandwich with the MDF/ply top and bottom.
You could spend a lot more but this is a cheap (relatively) alternative.
You could try your existing platform to get an idea of what you would achieve or just use some offcuts of ply as an experiment.
Remember to spike your speakers to the top od the platform. OR you could experiment with Blu-Tak or even more sorbothane.
I am sure each of these will alter the sound to some extent and will prefer one or another.
I hope this sets you off in the right direction.
This photo isn't the best, but it should give an idea of what the arrangement looks like. There should be better pictures in the July edition of Dwell Magazine who are covering my house and seemed interested in the rig.
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Follow Ups
- some ideas - dave c 20:18:54 06/06/07 (2)
- Nice space Dave - hatari 05:22:36 06/07/07 (1)
- Thanks - dave c 14:30:24 06/07/07 (0)
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