Speaker footers – Ugh



I’m exhausted in my search for the truth. I have a pair of Rega’s R7 floor standing speakers (about 40” tall) and feel that I can improve their sound by changing out the 4 stock spikes each speaker came with.

I’ve read where spikes can be a “bad thing” by exacerbating vibration within the speaker. Mapleshade has a philosophy that vibration needs to be drained from speakers. They sell heavy brass footers (3” tall, 3” diameter) that are supposed to accomplish that. However, they cost a few bucks and cosmetically are not exactly what I’m looking for.

I’ve spent hours trying to identify footers that will make a difference and am at the point of exhaustion. I could research more, but feel I’ll get no closer to the truth of what would be a good solution. I encourage anyone who has had a good experience with replacement footers for a floor stander (like the R7’s) to share.

Thank you.
rbschauman

Showing 1 response by inpieces

Feets alone might do a change, but did i understand this correct - i read draining also?

I use feets that are simply sounding like mixture of spikes and smooth damping.
Same company sell drain devices. They refer to these as "Vibb eaters".

When you use their feets + drain devices it simply drain chassis extremely much. No one doubts the audible benefit or that it works once they've heard it.
Simply lay the hand at the drain device, and you feel how aggressive it is activated.
If you buy and try Vibb eaters, please notice they are in different weights and for the optical option, they are in two versions.
Mice or Cone (works the same).

I think you can check this for your self.

Why not mail them.

Vibb eaters:
http://www.entreq.com/default.asp?PageId=1924

Feets (Cat feets):
http://www.entreq.com/default.asp?PageId=1923

I use jumbo sized cones (1 per speaker) and 4 Cat feets under one speaker.