Doug, it was TAS that raved about Pods under speakers. I tried them at the time but rejected them. I will try to find the time to try them again, but if my memory serves me correctly, there was a significant benefit in that cabinet resonance seems to all but disappear. Images seem more independant of the speakers. But as with most compliant vibration control stuff, all it was doing was moving the resonant frequency lower. With my Thiels it took me a few days to realise that I was no longer quite able to engage with how a female vocalist was singing - hard to describe, but the loss of musical engagement was very real. At the end of a week I was convinced that my musical enjoyment was greater without the Vibrapods than with them. This is not dissimilar to my experiences with bladder products - that they improve some of the sounds, but do damage to the music.
Vibrapods and Speakers
After reading a Soundstage article couple years ago by Greg
Weaver I have been experimenting using vibrapods to decouple
speaker from stand/floor. In the original article Greg was amazed at the improvement in sound of his Von Schweikert speakers when he replaced the cones between the bass cabinet
and mid/high cabinet with vibrapods. I am very impressed using vibrapods on monitor speakers between stand and speaker to decouple speaker. Very noticeable increase in bass extension, more 3D sounding, and richer more natural sound. I will not go back to rigid coupled speaker/stand.
I am now experimenting using large vibrapods for floor standing speakers between speaker/floor. At first you will reject this out of hand because we have been told over and over that speakers should be cone/spike mounted, but I am not so sure. Any other members tried this approach?
Weaver I have been experimenting using vibrapods to decouple
speaker from stand/floor. In the original article Greg was amazed at the improvement in sound of his Von Schweikert speakers when he replaced the cones between the bass cabinet
and mid/high cabinet with vibrapods. I am very impressed using vibrapods on monitor speakers between stand and speaker to decouple speaker. Very noticeable increase in bass extension, more 3D sounding, and richer more natural sound. I will not go back to rigid coupled speaker/stand.
I am now experimenting using large vibrapods for floor standing speakers between speaker/floor. At first you will reject this out of hand because we have been told over and over that speakers should be cone/spike mounted, but I am not so sure. Any other members tried this approach?