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RE: Well...

Posted by Lew (A) on October 31, 2016 at 08:25:55

In Reply to: Well... posted by My name is Fred on October 29, 2016 at 15:12:30:

Perhaps this is a matter of semantics. When I advocate coupling to the floor, I agree that you do want to isolate the floor from vibrations of the speaker cabinet. Stands with spike footers do achieve that goal. But if you sit a typical floor-stander right on the floor, very often it isn't properly decoupled physically from the floor (some of the more expensive floor-standers do incorporate spiked footers that solve the problem). But in my post, I was referring to preventing the speaker from moving in response to bass transients, by creating a physical anchor to the floor while also decoupling the vibrations. If the speaker is just sitting on the floor or worse, sitting on something that "glides", this wastes speaker and amplifier energy and reduces therefore the amount of energy in the music signal that can be transferred into the air to make sound. If the speaker is capable of deep bass response, this becomes all the more important. Bottom line is that I would not use "gliders". On the other hand, I have a high regard for Herbie. His products are generally BS-free.

So, maybe I should have written: raise, physically anchor and acoustically decouple (which is partly achieved by raising).

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