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Reducing Resonance Between Speakers and Stands – Need Advice

My Joseph Audio Pulsar speakers are currently placed on some basic stands, which themselves sit on spikes. When playing bass-heavy material, I feel the sound doesn’t quite detach cleanly from the speakers — instead it seems to vibrate and spread sideways, as if too much resonance is being transferred into the stands.

 

I’m looking for something to place between the speakers and the stands that would help reduce these resonances and improve bass clarity.

 

Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated!

gabriel123
gabriel123 OP
91 posts
 

Thank you! As always, you provide so much useful information.

For now, I will buy some silicone footers and use them between speakers and stands. I will also try to fill the stands with sand. In the future, I will buy better stands and use dedicated isolators instead of spikes. 

joeycastillo
267 posts
 

OP

I suggest that you use Iso Acoustic isolation devices. fir my personal observation, it is a must for me in mounting my Ls50 and ATCs on the stand mounts.

for me (YMMV) the isolators help enhance the separation of instruments and vocals of several singers. just makes a clearer soundstage that help projecting in my mind the venue.

 

try it, if it does not work for your needs, just return it

good luck

 

antigrunge2
1,569 posts
 

Symposium Svelteshelf and Aliexpress maglev footers work wonders on this problem. Somewhat less efficient are Symposium rollerblocks on their Svelteshelves

erik_squires
17,544 posts
 

My suggestion with speakers like this is to focus less on spikes and more on preventijng rocking.  You want to minimize the ability of those speakers to respond to the force generated by the motors (drivers).  Given the right situation, distance from speaker to floor, weight, etc. the speaker if not the speaker and stand will rock back and forth, which causes the bass issues you are noting.  

My suggestion as an experiment is to put a cloth on top and add 20 lbs. and if you hear night and day differences you know hot to address the problem. 

vthokie83
1,224 posts
 

I use silicone drum dampener pads, these and BlueTac were recommended by Mads Buchardt (Of Buchardt Audio speakers). I compared them, and much preferred the drum dampeners; and they leave no residue 

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