Auralex subdude

What did the subdudes do for you sound? I am a great tweaker at heart and have enjoyed spiking weighting damping mounting my equipment and to be prefectly honest never really analyzed the effect it had on the sound . I just took everyone elses expected outcomes and assumed I would get the same. The only thing I really noticed was when I sucked the life out of my speakers by over damping their stands and weighted tops. I have no axe to grind on either side just curios, I almost bought those Subdudes myself.

SubDudes don't do much for the speaker itself as much as they prevent compliant wood floors from contributing to the sound.

I've been using SubDudes for years with a pair of Velodyne HGS-15s controlled by an SMS-1 bass manager. In my application, the SubDudes eliminated a boominess and let extended LF be appreciated. That may have been before I installed the SMS-1, I just don't recall, but now both are in use, there is no boominess, and I'm not going to try the setup without the SubDudes, because the HGS-15s are very heavy. I'm leaving well enough alone.

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I used the Gramma's under my last speakers because my wood floors were acting as a giant subwoofer. I would put my ear close to the floor 10 feet from my speakers and here bass coming from the floor, even with a huge Oriental rug in front of the speakers. The speakers were on the wood floor though.

They worked absolute wonders. I sold those speakers, gave a Gramma to my wannabe rock star brother in law (who loves it, especially for raised stages) and have one left that I'll probably sell. I bought mine at Guitar Center.

i have subdudes under my sunfire hrs subs {2} on a suspended carpeted wood floor. great bass performance. i also had them under my 2 sunfire crm-2's on spikeed sunfire stands. one day i removed them form the monitors and a livliness and musical beauty returned to the sound. i then stated using the 2 subdudes for amp stands instead. i had read that one should avoid "exciting" the room floor and walls. but in my case the sunfire monitor speakers did not work well at all with the subdudes. any explanations for this? thanks