I would be rather surprised if they had a single resonance, which anyway would depend on the speaker's mass. But I've bookmarked them, as they look useful.
Well I've just received my Townshend Podiums.
All I've got to do now is get them positioned, and then work out how to get each 102kg speaker onto them.
I think it will be all hands on deck with a couple of mates to get that done.
With cable lifters!If there is one thing sure to wind me up.. It is people posting pictures of grubby little cheapskate systems..
Do Isolating Feet improve the sound of bookshelf speakers at all ?
Can't use stands speakers currently sat on shelves with back to wall.
Linn Tukans from CD5/Naim160/Nac62
It's hard to tell when I'm just teasing, isn't it?Useful to separate signal and power cables though, don’t you think?
If anyone else hasn't mentioned Atacama gel pads, these are the best option for shelf mounting
Eliminate all vibration from surroundings
google user reviews, pretty much sums them up.
Tukan's are quite well damped but the shelves are not & will happily bounce along with your music, at least this way you hear the speaker as intended.
...and then work out how to get each 102kg speaker onto them.
I use blutack between shelf and speaker but I'm wondering if bubble-wrap would be a better solution. I will try this tomorrow.
I received the 'Sonic Design' feet a couple of days back. I swapped the Sorbothane domed pads out for them this afternoon.
I've only listened to one album so far but initial impressions are very good. The music seems more focused. As I say early days.
Slightly OT. My speakers are on a side board with granite chopping boards underneath.
Just wondering if slate might be an improvement?
Sorry to the OP for going OT.
Just a thought; depending upon how resonant your side board is, placing heavy granite or slate bits beneath the speakers is more likely to extend the time factor of LF resonance decay, rather than help eliminate same. Reason being, all objects resonate (even the earth), those that are heavy, or in the case of your side board, suspending a heavy mass, will be more efficient stores of kinetic energy that is in turn released over a longer time line and, therefore, more audible as sound 'smear'.
I'd suggest comparing your existing Sorbothane and Sonic Design feet without the chopping boards; you may find that they both do an acceptable job.
Use 3It may be magic thinking but it certainly isn't any mechanical engineering covered in my degree course.
Also, for it to work (couple) correctly, good luck with getting all 4 spikes to be in perfect contact with the support at the same time.
I have tried both, I always seem to go back to a cone, the sound seems more defined to me, on the squidgy feet, the sound lacks focus by comparison, probably due to the speaker being allowed to move along with the drive units.
squidgy feet doesnt decoupleThere seems no perfect way, coupling via cones keeps the speaker more stable & steady which will benefit focus & definition, this also adds the problem of vibration entering the stand below, the floor then back into the stand, squidgy feet remove vibration but the speaker isn't kept firm while the drive unit moves, this will be detrimental to stability
I have tried both, I always seem to go back to a cone, the sound seems more defined to me, on the squidgy feet, the sound lacks focus by comparison, probably due to the speaker being allowed to move along with the drive units.