Magico Pods vs Townshend Seismic Platforms


I have a pair of Magico A5 loudspeakers fitted with Magico’s A-pods. Many here on Audiogon sing the praises of Townshend’s Seismic Platforms. Has anyone A/B compared the two products, particularly using A5 speakers?

jmeyers

I did a fair amount of testing with my 100 lb floor standing speakers to solve the specific bass issue I was having in my room on a suspended wood floor with carpet.  The room is treated with bass traps but the problem was the floor.  I tried the following: spikes, no spikes, "gliders", spikes on limestone platforms and no spikes on limestone platforms.  This also included various speaker let up locations.  The Townshend podiums solved my specific issue and provided additional benefits of an increased soundstage and depth as well as more pin point instrument placement.  They do wiggle a little bit if you bump them but it's minor and I never have a concern about that.  As always, your results may be different.  

@goose I fully understand your discovery made and fully get your attraction to the Townsend Product. I am familiar with them in use and have been able to discern between them being used and not being used. I am yet to be compelled to suggest the Townsends should be omitted from use.

A Product I am yet to be familiarised with and one that I know Townsend Product users have moved on to, is Stack Audio 50 or 70 Separator Models.

I can't recommend the product, I can only make an awareness that not all who O aware of having been using Townsend Products are sticking with them as a permanent used device.

Maybe Townsends for some are a trigger experience, with a outcome that is showing change and also encourages the broadening of experiences and furthering an individuals learning.

For some in their unique spaces for listening to replayed music, a better Product is discovered when broadening experiences?      

@rsf507  He is British. 

As usual don't know what the F pindic is saying! Oh well.

Being a "hard" interface, the Magicos won’t touch low frequencies

@mulveling Having been down a bit of a rabbit hole based on another thread recently, I couldn’t agree more. These look very nice and expensive. But I cannot see how from an engineering perspective they are going to improve the sound of any pair of speakers. The might change the sound, but that is another topic. Any potential vibration attenuation will occur as best I can tell at frequencies that will not benefit a speaker, as this is really needed in the lowest frequencies. And as @sargonicuse pointed out in the linked article, spikes are not isolation devices.

 

@rsf507 lol I always thought he was a bot. I read a sentence or two and then just give up and scroll to the next post.