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works 4 me

Hey ! I did not see those on the Sweetwater site. Thanks. They are on the way.

I recieved the Auralex Mopads yesterday and set them under my center, back and surrounds. Nice. the bass is more focused from each speaker and the sound just seems a little more precise. Not in a huge way (they are just foam rubber pads after all) but enough to notice and make them worth while. Thanks for the suggestion.

Ya know, Bestbang brought up an interesting paradox. On one hand, our GRAMMAs decouple our speakers from the floor. OTOH, spikes attempt to couple 'em to the floor, even through carpeting. Seems to me decoupling would take the quality/makeup of the floor out of the equation. Wouldn't a speaker floating in midair have the least physical interaction? All I know is, the GRAMMA tightened up the bass coming out of my lfm. Seems like a cheap fix to me!

Jay

I suppose it's up to the individual user to determine if potential sympathetic vibrations from flooring are advantageous in a given environment or not.

It is amazing to me that some people are marketing spikes as a means to isolate vibration. Spikes change the way a loudspeaker's cabinet is physically coupled to a stand or to the floor. This may cause the cabinet to vibrate less by giving the kinetic energy a partial "drain" thereby changing the way a loudspeaker sounds, but the energy that is drained away from the cabinet has to go somewhere. From a physics point of view, spikes are an effective means to transfer some of the kinetic energy from one object to another.

I have a one inch thick rubber mat. Do you guys think this would perform just as well as a gramma? I have'nt received my sub yet but just curious.
Thanks, Daman

All this depends on if you live on a drum or a rock... Take a piece of 2x4 about a foot long and place it on your floor and hit it with a 5 lb hammer.. How does it sound?

Good=Spikes
Bad=Isolate

I think thats the ticket

Better yet.

If you have carpet, take a sheet of plywood and place it under your couch, with two feet sticking out the left or right side. Put the LFM1 on top of that..

Instant Butt Shaker..