It depends upon your type of floor. Couple if your floor is rock solid and won't transfer significant amounts of vibration into your speaker. Decouple if your floor is relatively elastic and capable of transmitting vibration into your speaker. Think concrete slab construction ten miles away from any industry or highway versus a wood frame house with suspended flooring above an subway line.
should speakers be coupled or decoupled?
I have seen a bunch of threads that touch on this, but I wanted to ask the question directly: I don't understand the idea of putting ball bearing type decoupling devices underneath floorstanding speakers (with or without a platform). Doesn't this mean that the speaker will move around as it's woofer fires? And isn't that decidedly not good sonically?
I do understand the idea of having a very solid base for the speaker: either spikes down through carpet to the base material underneath, or a solid platform.
I'm very interested in people's thoughts on this matter.
I do understand the idea of having a very solid base for the speaker: either spikes down through carpet to the base material underneath, or a solid platform.
I'm very interested in people's thoughts on this matter.