What can we do to avoid listening fattigue?

[GMK]

Current setup is upstairs, thus a standard bedroom floor (I'm unsure of the material - 90's standard build house). Onto that bedroom floor I've got Atacama Nexus 7i stands (spiked), fully filled with cat litter, with 4 sizeable blu-tack blobs between the speaker and stand. So from what you're saying I should really have granite under the stands spikes instead of direct into the floor?

 

[CnoEvil]

Current setup is upstairs, thus a standard bedroom floor (I'm unsure of the material - 90's standard build house). Onto that bedroom floor I've got Atacama Nexus 7i stands (spiked), fully filled with cat litter, with 4 sizeable blu-tack blobs between the speaker and stand. So from what you're saying I should really have granite under the stands spikes instead of direct into the floor?

- You could try Granite Wortop Savers which can be bought for about £10 (make sure they are returnable in case it makes no difference).

- Make sure they don't rock on the carpet (if that's what you use).

- Use spike shoes, which can be made using 1Ps (with a dent punched in them and a sticky wood floor protector on the other side.

- Be careful with Cat Litter, which could absorb moisture and rust stands from the inside.....though how likely this is to happen, I can't say.

- If you want to add Mass as well as extra Damping, try Kiln-Dried Sand......start with half full, and work up from there.

 

[CJSF]

Mmm . . . Just read the 2008 'Speaker Asylum post', by Klaus DK: 'the sade tale of Celestion'.

I quote:-

. . . "Yes it is a sad story; let’s hope it will serve as a lesson for all those loudspeaker producers out there who produce ever and ever shriller, harder and more pinched sounding speakers. You have already lost the young generation of listeners who are more interested in computers; beware not to loose us, the music loving community who wants natural timbre, warmth, beauty and envelopment, in our speakers."

. . . the quote, I feel, is relevent to 'listening fattigue' and suports my personal view of how speakers designers have gone over the years . . . "music loving . . . natural timbre, warmth, beauty and envelopment . . . ". Think about it . . . ?

My views are personal and biased . . . thats the way I like my music. I make no appologies for my personel opinion, you dont have to agree, but please dont take them as a personal attack, end of story.

CJSF

 

[garyw77]

Totally agree Cno.

On a suspended wooden floor I have my DB1i's on rubber feet, Atacama Aurora 6 stands fully filled with Atabites, spiked into spike shoes on 1" slabs of granite.

This combination has brought the best out of them for me, perfect