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In Reply to: Speaker Isolation Recommended for Carpet/Wood Floors posted by Quint on August 6, 2003 at 10:12:31:
Pete Burant is right about the vibrational feedback route and vibration in concrete. I keep retelling the story of a massive stone floor in a cathedral being excited into vibration by an unamplified pipe organ. Massive floors do vibrate but at lower frequencies than wooden and those lower frequencies are the hardest to deal with.As to your question about whether or not to isolate your speakers - only you can tell. Using an isolation device like one of the Symposium stands will change the sound. Whether or not that change is right for you depends solely on whether you prefer the change and no-one else can decide that for you. It really is a matter of 'suck it and see'. Building some clone Symposium platforms is cheap, especially if you hold off on the aluminium until you find out whether or not you like the effect. If you do so, take some time making your decision. The bass may sound considerably leaner if you have a strong feedback loop and the tonal balance may change noticably in that case. It may take your ears some time to adjust to the change and you need to give time for that before making up your mind.
While I haven't tried Symposium platforms/clones under my standmounted monitors, I have tried a number of isolation and coupling approaches under them, first in my old house with a suspended wooden floor, and now in my new house with a carpeted concrete slab floor. In both cases I ended up with coupling rather than isolation. That's partly due to my sound preferences but then I do have a lot of isolation in my rack which breaks the feedback chain quite well. If my components weren't strongly isolated, my preference may well have been for isolation with the speakers. I don't think there necessarily is a hard and fast answer about whether you need to isolate speakers but I strongly believe that you do need to isolate electronic components. If you can't do that effectively enough, you may well need to isolate the speakers to in order to break the feedback chain sufficiently.
David Aiken
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