Blu tack under speakers

[aliEnRIK]

My floorstanders are sat on wood plinths on top of slabs of concrete. The speakers are 'spiked' into the wood which in turn is blu tacked to the concrete. The result is 'rock' solid speakers

 

[Anonymous]

Im a bit worried now. Can only get yellow here in France - will it detract from sound quality? I can buy the blue when I'm in the UK next week if necessary.

 

[professorhat]

Yellow-tack - now that is crazy!

 

[SteveR750]

aliEnRIK:My floorstanders are sat on wood plinths on top of slabs of concrete. The speakers are 'spiked' into the wood which in turn is blu tacked to the concrete. The result is 'rock' solid speakers

I find that only playing rock music too brings about a improvement.

 

[Anonymous]

I used 4 strips for each stand, one across each length of the square top. I found this to be very effective in holding the speakers in place. It certainly worked very well for my B&W 685 and MA GS10 previously.

 

[idc]

Joel, Bjorkii and Tarquinh, someone is going to dip into this forum, read your comments and think, you are nutters. You are giving the forum a bad name, which is wrong because we are all not nutters, wibble.

 

[chebby]

What are the alternatives?

Spikes? Okay if you live on your own and without pets.

Rubber feet? Bouncy and speakers can still be toppled off stands.

Small spikes + mastic gasket? Goodness only knows. Only seen it on Naim SBLs for entirely different reasons.

Screw speakers onto stands? Probably best but holes affects resale value of speakers.

Araldite? Okay if you plan to use same speakers + stands for next 20 years.

 

[Anonymous]

There is another way,

B&W CM1s come with 4 built in M6 alumininum threaded boses set into the base, so all you do is screw the speakers to the stand.

An absolutely brilliant idea, can't see why other manufacterers don't adopt the method...........

 

[SteveR750]

chebby:
What are the alternatives?

Spikes? Okay if you live on your own and without pets.

Rubber feet? Bouncy and speakers can still be toppled off stands.

Small spikes + mastic gasket? Goodness only knows. Only seen it on Naim SBLs for entirely different reasons.

Screw speakers onto stands? Probably best but holes affects resale value of speakers.

Araldite? Okay if you plan to use same speakers + stands for next 20 years.

<much wringing of hands and worried looks> It's almost too much to contemplate!

I know, get some floor stranders, then the "problem" goes away... I tried both blu tak, then the foam pads that came with my stands, then nothing at all, and guess what: I couldnt hear a damn diference. What did have a big effect tho was whether I had got the floor spikes properly level so there was no rocking at all, and then stamped on them to jam them into the cement slightly.

 

[a91gti]

JoelSim:
I find that if you split a blob into 3 and plait it, it also serves to reduce the RFI effects present in all closed circuits as well as affixing the speaker to the stand membrane upper.

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ROFL!!!

All this talk of vibrations and negative effects is pushing my open baffle plan along nicely tho.

 

[SteveR750]

I'm sure that someone somewhere has in an attempt to get closer to an infinite baffle has built drivers into their external walls, with the rear of the drivers simply radiating into the garden. This of course means that you could not listen with the windows or doors open....

 

[pwiles1968]

SteveR750:I'm sure that someone somewhere has in an attempt to get closer to an infinite baffle has built drivers into their external walls, with the rear of the drivers simply radiating into the garden. This of course means that you could not listen with the windows or doors open....

Sticking a couple of speakers in the walls is far to easy, what you want to do is this - http://www.royaldevice.com/custom.htm

Build the whole under-floor of the house in to a Horn sub-woofer, no blue tack required.

 

[TitusG]

I wish I had known about the wonders of blu-tac when I had first bought my speakers and stands. The dealer recommended top plate spikes and now the base of the speakers are in a right state and one was knocked off by a drunken "friend". The resale value isn't going to be high!

 

[simonlewis]

I have a speaker next to a window, my cat & a neighbours cat have knocked the speaker off it's stand twice, once each, two little marks on the speaker hardly noticeable so i got some blu-tak today & secured it down with that, i just hope that cures the problem.

 

[Anonymous]

Thank you pwiles1968 for the best laugh all day. Brilliant. These people obviously have a bit of spare time and money. Don't miss his link folks and understand the dedication some people have for serious bassss...

 

[SteveR750]

slewis:I have a speaker next to a window, my cat & a neighbours cat have knocked the speaker off it's stand twice, once each, two little marks on the speaker hardly noticeable so i got some blu-tak today & secured it down with that, i just hope that cures the problem.

The cat??

 

[simonlewis]

LOL, i wish, no i meant the speaker.

 

[SteveR750]

@pwiles

Thats bonkers! Whats most amusing is all that hardware for sonic perfection, only to be contaminated by a loudly resonating drumkit in the corner D'oh!

 

[Anonymous]

igglebert:SteveR750:(other than to assist in levelling)
...and not knocking them off. I'm not sure about the physics as I've heard a few different takes on it. The knocking off thing has saved them twice now; bloody careless house viewers...

yes, i thought the g/f was always bumping into them and half knocking them off.... turns out it was the sub next to one of the speakers and bluetak cured the problem (and argument!)

 

[Anonymous]

Note of caution to blu tack users & owners of vinyl clad speakers (none of you i'm sure...). Blu Tack is SO good that if you want to move the speakers & don't do it carefully, the vinyl tends to want to stay with the blu tack rather than with the speaker!