Absorption diffusing platforms for speakers.

Audiotfoot

Audiotfoot

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Saw this posted on djnagle's post below and was curious, but didn't want to hijack the thread:

"The only technical aspect I'd focus on is placing some sort of absorption diffusing platforms underneath your speakers and/or subwoofers." - by KDAC.

I recall seeing threads advising spikes that would give speakers a solid connection to the floor, thus improving sound. Has that now fallen out of favor?

In any case I'm going to try it out. Would a piece of thick carpet do the trick, or does one have to buy/construct something special?
 
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Not sure what your trying to accomplish but I just did some monitor pads under mine and it mostly fixed my "to much bass" issue. Some more tweaking and I should be good.

I do live in a Tiny House with a "listening loft" not room. The way the loft floor is constructed it seems to be acting like a huge guitar body.
 
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My speakers and subs are spiked directly to the hardwood floor in my listening room. That's not about to change.
 
I spike my stands to the floor. I would only use absorption if I had bookshelves on a piece of furniture.
Audiotfoot said:
Looking for an improvement in the low end.
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Which speakers do you have? The only sure-fire way I’ve found of coaxing more apparent bass out of a speaker is getting the woofer closer to the ground. But a lot of the time (most of the time), that’s not possible. Spiking or absorption should tighten up the bass, but IME it doesn’t give you more.
 
I do all of my room tweaks with whatever I have around to see what effect it has. In my situation I asked a friend who has a recording studio if I could borrow some monitor isolation pads that would fit KG4's, this made a big difference in my space.

As far as spikes go I had a set of Polk towers that I bought in 1996 that had them with rubber covers. Being in the Navy they lived in 4 different houses and in 7 different rooms. Depended on the floor coverings and type of floor (slab/framed) as to how they were set up. The last space they were in was stranded bamboo and it sounded best with one on spikes the other on the rubber caps. In the same space the Klipsch wanted to be off their stands, B&W's liked a piece of 1/4 rubber I had laying around, KLH's were best just sitting on the floor.

Assuming you have worked on speaker placement.

Just my .002c worth

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Speakers are a pair of Polk Monitor 70s and a pair of Marantz 7Mk II. The Marantz have been recapped and modified to give a replacement 12" woofer a 1.1 cu ft enclosure.l They are run together on the receiver's A and B channels. Placement has been played with and right now are where they seem to give the best sound, but there's always that little voice in my head that says, "Maybe they could sound better."
 
Ok so Korn may be a little bass heavy still, if that can even be a thing?

If the center of the Polks feet is “rubber” maybe a cover like mine had.
 
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