What are general views on isolation feet for heavy floor standing speakers? They seem to cost a lot of money, but are they going to make a great deal of difference to warrant spending that kind of money.

Are there people that view them as an essential giving certain conditions like hardwood floors? Or are they seen as largely unnecessary?

  • Dadriks@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    As someone else said…cheap rubber feet from a hardware store, or this “sorborite” ? rubber feet they sell on Amazon etc. attach with some double sided tape.

  • Yiakubou@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I have speakers equipped with feet using good quality industrial rubber silent blocks for a fraction of the price. Works better than some of those expensive hi-fi feet that I’ve seen.

  • honest_guvnor@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    If you have an issue with your speakers audibly driving the floor and room structure then isolating the speakers will bring improvements. Many people don’t have an issue. Most expensive audiophile “isolators” don’t provide effective isolation but, surprisingly for expensive audiophile accessories, one or two do. It would likely be cheaper though to use products sold to address acoustic installation issues with machinery.