Decouple Speaker From Floor

That s fairly straight forward as it stops transmissions radiating through the floor and to the listener prior to the airborne sound hitting them.

Decouple speaker from floor.

The building is very old and wooden floor is too alive. Maybe you re scared your pets child will knock them down and damage your precious speakers. Rim joist would be hung on existing studs. 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. Hello i have recently moved to new apartment and now face a strange problem. Guess i ve probably come down on the side of those whose viewpoint is that we need to decouple the system from the floor. Whatever the reason plenty of people place their audio speakers on the floor.

Here s why you might want to reconsider. So we need to address the vibrations to the floor first. Or at least do it in a more valid and musically engaging manner whatever the descriptive term. 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. I have the option of hanging fully decoupled ceiling via rim joist and joist hangers due to my current ceiling height. I have installed padding and carpet to calm down the footfalls. Maybe you hate the way audio speaker stands look.

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 one logical thing is to decouple the speakers from the stand itself. If i am walking in one corner of apartment the vibration from steps can be felt in other corner. Or sometimes we are told that we need to couple our speakers to the floor with spikes.

So we decouple the subwoofer. I m not sure if that is the right term. I was under the impression that this is the best option but now i am getting confused. However some give the impression that coupling the stands to the floor increases their effective mass and hence stops.