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RE: Vibration Isolation Technical Article- Interesting

Posted by Inmate51 on June 21, 2017 at 10:45:23

In Reply to: Vibration Isolation Technical Article- Interesting posted by mr.bear on June 19, 2017 at 23:41:21:

I've read your post and the replies to this point.

There's a couple of thing going on here, and they are different issues. One is air-borne vibration, and the other is structure-borne vibration.

Mass and stiffness is your friend with regard to air-borne vibration (sound). The typically very small amount of air-borne vibration isn't enough to cause a massive wall or floor to propagate a significant amount of sound through it to another location.

On the other hand, even a massive and stiff structure will READILY transmit vibration when it is "struck" or otherwise set into motion. This is when "isolation" approaches such as mounts become important, in order to absorb the motion before it gets to a place where we don't want it.

A third situation exists with room resonance. You may have observed that a car, truck or other sound source produces a noticeable resonance in a room, but, outside, it's not as loud. This is a result of the structure and its enclosed air volume sympathetically vibrating due to sound either via the air or the ground.

As I've been recommending for several years, "Master Handbook of Acoustics" and "Music, Physics and Engineering" is required reading for all audiophiles.

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