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coupling speakers or not

Coupling speakers to a suspended floor will tend to produce a bloated bass. Even on a concrete slab it can produce a lot of vibration into the floor.
The TINY amount of negative effect from the speaker being decoupled (I'll get to it in a moment) is negligable by comparison.
Here goes...
By decoupling the speaker you allow it to move the cabinet producing bad effects, runs the argument for coupling.
Now, compare the mass of the entire speaker to the moving part... yes, the cone... it ways a few grams.
Its effect is minute. Very minute.
Freeing th speaker may initially make the system sound a bit bass light, but after the first impression, you may well find the bottom end is faster and deeper.
This is something which can seem counter intuitive, but try it ans see... hear!


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  • coupling speakers or not - dave c 15:45:26 04/28/07 (0)

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