Planar Speaker Asylum

Welcome! Need support, you got it. Or share your ideas and experiences.

Use this form to submit comments directly to the Asylum moderators for this forum. We're particularly interested in truly outstanding posts that might be added to our FAQs.
You may also use this form to provide feedback or to call attention to messages that may be in violation of our content rules.

You must login to use this feature.

Inmate Login

By default, logging in will set a session cookie that disappears when you close your browser. Clicking on the 'Remember my Moniker & Password' below will cause a permanent 'Login Cookie' to be set.

Moniker/Username: The Name that you picked or by default, your email. Forgot Moniker?	Examples "Rapper", "Bob W", "joe@aol.com".
Password:	Forgot Password?
	Remember my Moniker & Password ( What's this?)

If you don't have an Asylum Account, you can create one by clicking Here.

Our privacy policy can be reviewed by clicking Here.

Inmate Comments

From:
Your Email:
Subject:

Message Comments

Original Message

RE: "New" Quads and Stands

Posted by cawson@onetel.com on February 27, 2017 at 11:14:27:
I have just bought a pair of Quad 2905s (arriving Wednesday) that don't need stands, but I'm interested in the "castors vs spikes" discussion.

10-20 years ago every speaker builder said you must use spikes into the floor to solidly connect speakers to floor to get best sound. Now it seems that "isolation" is the popular choice where speakers seem to be deliberately and often expensively isolated to prevent unwanted vibration. Has the world gone mad, or have I misunderstood the concept, or have the laws of Physics changed over the last couple of decades?

I'm asking because I'll have to decide what to put under my Quads. I don't want spikes into my nice timber flooring, but could use spike cups. Or I could "isolate" the speakers with Vibrapods or some other device made from vinyl, rubber or Sorbothane. Or I could spike into a sacrificial heavy board or stone slab and isolate that from the floor. Any suggestions?