Vibrapods to Preludes


After spiking speakers seemingly since first supporting stereo stuff self seriously, I've succumbed to a set of Vibrapods under Silverlines. It defies logic and makes me realize that maybe everything I know is wrong but damn, it works swimmingly. Sweeter mids, wider and more stable soundstage, etc. Go figure...who knew? Where am I?
wolf_garcia
I suppose my woofers are so small and fast the "pods" haven't confused 'em...besides, the heavy lifting of low notes is done by a REL sub that shall remain podless.
I have been singing the praises for Vibrapods under my Soliloquy monitors for years. After running through a full range of popular interfaces and speaker stand fills, I hit personal nirvana with the vibrapods. I believe they work their magic because they preserve all the energy and liveliness, but without the blurring of HF's that I had expected.
Vibrapods under my floorstanders was not so good. Even with the stiffer #5 pods, bass attack was slowed and a bit confused. I get the best results under them with cork/rubber isolation pads on bamboo cutting boards.

Everything makes a difference
Chris
The reason for my thread was to see if anybody else has recently tried this "Vibrapod under the speakers" thing. Well? Has anybody? Somebody at a high end "Salon" mentioned "energy storage" as a possible issue so I've been checking the pods for excess energy from time to time as I thought maybe I could use it to power a lightbulb or my refrigerator.
Some use Boston Audio graphit with steel inserts tuneblocks made specifically for spiked speakers with great results. Where are you? You are on a quest to find the thing that works best. You could also experiment with various spikes and footers of different materials, weight, shape; and with three or four footers.