I m not sure if that is the right term.
Decouple speaker from floor.
The one logical thing is to decouple the speakers from the stand itself.
Hello i have recently moved to new apartment and now face a strange problem.
Maybe you re scared your pets child will knock them down and damage your precious speakers.
I was under the impression that this is the best option but now i am getting confused.
Whatever the reason plenty of people place their audio speakers on the floor.
Here s why you might want to reconsider.
Now there are spikes and all kinds of other things but i m going to propose something else.
Or maybe you re going for a college chic aesthetic with everything from your mattress to your tv on the floor.
So we need to address the vibrations to the floor first.
So we have this vibration which couples directly with the floor if you set it on the floor then obviously we have the pressure generated from the subwoofer itself.
The building is very old and wooden floor is too alive.
I have installed padding and carpet to calm down the footfalls.
You will have to keep in mind that audio coupling works both ways if your speaker is coupled to the floor it will transmit vibrations to the floor but the floor will also transfer.
Rim joist would be hung on existing studs.
You may be wondering why you may wish to decouple your speaker if the attached material can become part of the speaker and help add to the sound emission.
So we decouple the subwoofer.
I want to decouple ceilings from the floor above.
Banging the floor with foot gives you a sense that furniture and fixture is going down.
If i am walking in one corner of apartment the vibration from steps can be felt in other corner.
However some give the impression that coupling the stands to the floor increases their effective mass and hence stops.
Is this worse than hat channels.
That s fairly straight forward as it stops transmissions radiating through the floor and to the listener prior to the airborne sound hitting them.
Maybe you hate the way audio speaker stands look.
I have the option of hanging fully decoupled ceiling via rim joist and joist hangers due to my current ceiling height.