Can I use an isolation stand with an isolation pad?
I bought a 5.1 surround sound system recently, and got an IsoAccoustics isolation stand for my subwoofer. Unfortunately my neighbor below me can hear the bass if I'm watching a loud movie (in a condo, hardwood floors). I'm wondering if I should buy an isolation pad - like the Auralex Subdude HT - for under the stand, or if there might be a better approach? The music store I went to steered me away from isolation pads and towards the stand, but it's clearly not doing enough on its own. Thanks to anyone with advice!
Here is a possibly dumb solution: How about suspending the subwoofer from the ceiling? Before you laugh, when I was in college our dorm (barracks) had very bouncy wooden floors. Even my roommates B&O turntable with its own internal suspension would skip when someone stomped or jumped even in the room next door. So we used cotton webbing straps and suspended it from the ceiling. It worked great Of course we had to stabilize it with a horizontal strap since it tended to sway from the motor momentum. |
Here is a possibly dumb solution: How about suspending the subwoofer from the ceiling? Before you laugh, when I was in college our dorm (barracks) had very bouncy wooden floors. Even my roommates B&O turntable with its own internal suspension would skip when someone stomped or jumped even in the room next door. So we used cotton webbing straps and suspended it from the ceiling. It worked great Of course we had to stabilize it with a horizontal strap since it tended to sway from the motor momentum. hahah thankyou so much VidMate AnyDesk mobdro.onl/ |
In the end 20hz tone is 56.5 ft long so your neighbour will almost always hear the bass louder then you. even a 40hz tone is 28ft long so bass is always a hard thing to tame in smaller spaces. I've seen an issues were my friend had no bass in his apartments but his neighbour down the hall was booming really loud. Bass traps may help but probably not much for your neighbours. turn it down is really the only thing you can do other then what you have already done...not ideal to be that close to neighbours and love audio-movies I feel your pain I'm in a similar situation. |
The first thing you need to figure out is if the noise that is bothering your neighbor is from mechanical coupling of the subwoofer to the floor or just the sound waves passing through the floor. The former can be addressed by isolating the subwoofer. The latter can only be addressed by reducing the volume of your lower frequency sounds (i.e. less or no subwoofer). My guess is that it's like @glennewdick says and you'll have to turn it down, forego the lower frequencies, or find some other compromise with your neighbor. |
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Getting back to the question posed by the OP for a moment the general answer is no, you should not (rpt not) use two isolation devices in series, only under special conditions. It would be like driving a car down the road with two shock absorbers connected in series to the wheels. The shock absorbers would interfere with each other and the ride would be extremely bumpy. Is is possible to construct a dual layer mass on spring isolation platform, I actually sell one, the Nirvana. But it’s tricky. The most straightforward solution for SQ would be to put cones under the stand. |
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