Are your speakers just sitting on the floor?

those are GIGANTIC speakers. Problem is neither you nor Klipsch is responsibily dealing with the vibrations inherent to the operation of the Cornwall's. its like a beached whale, set it free!

A friend has them sitting on mapleshade's big footers + an enormous 3' x 4' timbneration 4" plat & another set of MS footers. pierre sprey designed it. the issues you note disappear 100%...you're left with that 15" becoming the fastest, meanest 15" woofer around. all cabinet issues, due to the beasts heft, disappear. the imaging gets ratcheted up a big ol' stadium sized notch. the owner did this mount after suffering the issues you mentioned...he's a Klipsc die-hard.

it costs an arm & a leg, but transforms the beasts you luv.

I've demo'd this set-up in a basement with poured concrete subfloor & berber carpeting with padding.

After some careful x-over tweaks & damping the horns, the Cornwall's turn into champs.

the jist is the brass footers couple eash speaker to the tonewood plinth. when the speaker vibrates the cabinet doesn't have to absorb nasty vibrations...the vibes flow with this mount, flow in 1 direction very efficiently. th tonewood platform absorbs the vibrations that area giving you issue.

this mount is securely mounted but sits on the carpet, not tall carpet piercing spikes. due to the heft, the carpet/padding is allowed to be the Isoblocks, the isolation layer allowing the tonewood plinth to do its thing (vibrate & damp).

Might be possible to DIY, worth any effort to achieve though. Timbernation boards are much cheaper than mapleshade's. takes a huge board for this mount though..them some big boys!

on the cheap, look carefully at the floor & cabinet connection... maybe a few tubes of racquetballs cut in 1/2 might work...or hockey pucks, phone books, etc.

Herbie's audio lab might have solutions for you too.

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Topic - Help: My New Cornwalls Have Upset the Balance...Long... - ddarch 05:51:33 04/15/07 (26)

Re: Help: My New Cornwalls Have Upset the Balance...Long... - 3Fates 05:48:08 04/16/07 (0)

Re: How old are they? - SirAnthony 13:56:09 04/15/07 (0)

Are your speakers just sitting on the floor? - mattcecil1@yahoo.com 13:05:07 04/15/07 (1)

Re: Are your speakers just sitting on the floor? - JEA 15:33:05 04/16/07 (0)

Nobody has mentioned the cartridge. - OldGroaner 12:44:09 04/15/07 (0)

That's the nature of the Cornwall beast . . . - Allan Songer 11:58:01 04/15/07 (2)

Re: That's the nature of the Cornwall beast . . . - ddarch 12:14:42 04/15/07 (1)

Here's what HELPS . . . - Allan Songer 13:16:02 04/15/07 (0)

Re: Help: My New Cornwalls Have Upset the Balance...Long... - powermatic 10:50:01 04/15/07 (1)

Re: Help: My New Cornwalls Have Upset the Balance...Long... - ddarch 12:13:48 04/15/07 (0)

Try another TT - BatNastard 09:02:30 04/15/07 (1)

Re: Try another TT - ddarch 12:12:48 04/15/07 (0)

Re: Help: My New Cornwalls Have Upset the Balance...Long... - tonyb_2k 08:31:08 04/15/07 (2)

Re: Help: My New Cornwalls Have Upset the Balance...Long... - ddarch 12:12:02 04/15/07 (1)

Caps were a substantial change - tonyb_2k 16:57:01 04/15/07 (0)

Room and speaker positioning? - Elmo 08:19:30 04/15/07 (2)

Re: Room and speaker positioning? - ddarch 12:10:44 04/15/07 (1)

Seems easy ..... costs nothing to try, but perhaps - Elmo 04:20:20 04/16/07 (0)

get yourself an EICO HF-81 (or, better yet, a Marantz 8B) - mhardy6647 08:13:20 04/15/07 (1)

Re: get yourself an EICO HF-81 (or, better yet, a Marantz 8B) - ddarch 12:08:11 04/15/07 (0)

Might try moving your TT.... - Ivan303 06:54:34 04/15/07 (3)

Re: Might try moving your TT.... - ddarch 12:06:15 04/15/07 (1)

What's your table sitting on now?nt - rob mac 22:29:27 04/15/07 (0)

I agree. It sounds like a feedback issue. /mt - Ray-o-Stat 08:59:16 04/15/07 (0)

Re: Help: My New Cornwalls Have Upset the Balance...Long... - HenryH 06:43:16 04/15/07 (1)

Re: Help: My New Cornwalls Have Upset the Balance...Long... - ddarch44 12:05:06 04/15/07 (0)

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Are your speakers just sitting on the floor? - mattcecil1@yahoo.com 13:05:07 04/15/07 (1)

Re: Are your speakers just sitting on the floor? - JEA 15:33:05 04/16/07 (0)

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