Patu
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I keep saying this: stand heavy speakers on machine feet. If I can stand 600kg of killing machine on 4 machine feet and damp vibration, and I have, your speakers are child's play.
What's a machine feet?
I keep saying this: stand heavy speakers on machine feet. If I can stand 600kg of killing machine on 4 machine feet and damp vibration, and I have, your speakers are child's play.
A foot that goes under an engineering machine and absorbs vibration. Google engineering suppliers.What's a machine feet?
Brilliant! Autocorrect s best ever! I typed milling machine.Never mind machine feet, what's a killing machine???
The door stops idea is a really good one and worth a tryAll these custom feet are great and they look cool, but wow, the cost. If you are buying such a thing, I recommend that you try a few DIY options, such as rubber door stops, machine feet (look in an engineering catalogue), boards with Blu tak between the layers, folded towels, old socks (yes, I am serious) before you part with some hundreds of pounds. If the new shiny feet are better, happy days. But if you find that a rubber door stop looks and sounds just as good, and costs 50p, then you have a winner.
As are a plethora of existing products. Witness the Addis mat and rubber dots thread that came out of someone prepared to do his own engineering development work and carry out a few simple and cheap experiments. This is a simple damped spring application. Like any such system, you are tuning the damping to springing ratio to optimise the results. It really doesn't need to cost hundreds of pounds.The door stops idea is a really good one and worth a try
Great to hear that you are very pleased with the AUVA 50's which as we both know have a completely unique approach to vibration absorption. As you have found for yourself they work very well indeed as indeed I found out myself a few months ago.Installed Auva 50's tonight. First impressions are very positive. They add depth and size to the sound and obviously everything sounds clearer since the room isn't playing along that much. Also I like the bass performance more than GAIAs. Auvas don't seem to take anything away from the punch and immediacy, while at the same time they add more reach to the bass. Overall bigger and more natural sound, very nice.
GAIAs work with standmouts just as they work with floorstanders. I’ve used them with both.I use it, and i heard no difference, but gaia with floorstand speakers, do have a very huge difference in sq, not worth to use gaia with stands
But placing the loudspeaker on 'isolating materials' only exacerbates the problem, as the cabinet vibrations have nowhere to go, and so build in amplitude as the music continues to excite the panels.