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    Join Date: Jul 2012

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    Merry Christmas.

    I’ve recently moved house and seem to have an issue with my floor transmitting sound! It’s suspended wooden floorboards with an oak floor atop. The floor seems to be sucking out the bass in my living room where the speakers are, if I go into the next room I then hear the bass. This makes me think my new neighbours will be quite displeased.

    I’ve checked out the quite impressive looking Townshend platforms but am wondering if there’s anything at the - just bought a house so broke - end of market for me to experiment with?

    Speakers are B&W 805N with the dedicated B&W (no spikes) stands.

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    Grab a pair of slabs from a local garden type place for a quick fix/experiment and stand the speaks on they.

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    Quote Originally Posted by agk View Post
    Grab a pair of slabs from a local garden type place for a quick fix/experiment and stand the speaks on they.
    No, there's no compliance there, so the only effect is due to added mass. However, a heavy slab sitting on top of a tyre inner tube does have compliance and will be a lot more effective. Also, there would be some scope for tuning the system by altering the pressure in the inner tube.
    Of course, wobblyness could be an issue to bear in mind.

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    I've also got suspended wood floors, I had good results with a marble base with blutak underneath and then I had nice rubber feet made for my speakers instead of using the spikes, there was definetly an improvement in the bass, it isolated the vibrations a lot as I could always feel the bass in my feet through the floor before but now I only feel it when really loud or with very deep bass.

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    Slabs do work after a fashion, I used to use them when I had a room with suspended floor (never again).

    Or you could try a pile of cork mats/floor tiles under each stand. Not tried that but it might work and less unsightly than slabs. Granite or wooden chopping boards might also be worth a go.
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    Blue Horizon spike shoes worked well for my stand mount speakers on a suspended floor.
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    The slabs I use are covered in black velvet, got them with some red rose speakers and stands I once had. Have a suspended floor in my garden room, never had a problem, but then under the floor are just timbers and not a cavity like a house,
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    When I built a listening room in my barn in France I built concrete columns under the floor, level with the floor and stood the speakers on them. Worked a treat.
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    I’ve read that if you have a suspended floor, the best place to locate speakers is close to the end of the joist. Placing your speakers along an inside wall where the floor is bouncier exasperates the problem.

    And similar to Paul’s solution, if there is crawl space under your floor you can brace up the floor directly under the speakers, with a paving stone and some heavy timber under the joist. Whether this will prevent bass from propagating to the neighbors? Isolating from the floor is bound to help.


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