Subwoofer Floor Coupling

Banging the floor with foot gives you a sense that furniture and fixture is going down.

Subwoofer floor coupling. I called herbie s and the guy there was convinced that decoupling is the only answer so i wanted to check with you guys on this. The effect is to minimize the influence of enclosure vibrations. As i was writing my reply i did wonder if your floor was suspended beams as this could well be excited by the soundwaves of the subwoofer but again the mass of the cone and voicecoil oscillating is unlikely to have an effect on that kind of mass it is either the soundwaves themselves or the pressurisation of the room flexing the floor or walls etc. I have installed padding and carpet to calm down the footfalls.

Rather far from it actually. Foam pads go between your speakers and your desk stands or floor to decouple the two and then collect and dissipate any vibrations. Audiorocks jan 10 2017 1. It is not possible to decouple a sub.

Especially with subwoofers spikes can lessen distortion. Concrete is not inert. If you have a floor which is made out of wood however which can easily transmit vibrations you will very likely prefer to decouple your speakers so they do not have further vibrations transferred to them. This will still be relatively small but.

Just like acoustic treatment using rigid fiberglass. If i am walking in one corner of apartment the vibration from steps can be felt in other corner. The building is very old and wooden floor is too alive. Coupling or decoupling speakers.

My subs are on risers and shake the floors walls windows ect. The term decouple of commonly misused. Hello i have recently moved to new apartment and now face a strange problem. The riser subdue mat can help with minimal floor vibrations.

If your floor is made out of a harder substance like concrete coupling is usually the best option. But coupling is what speaker stand spikes are for. However in my experience for bass performance the performance gain enjoyed by coupling the sub to the floor would clearly outweigh it. For example i have peavey sp118 subs powered by plx 3402s at 8 ohms.

Sorry folks those notions are completely backwards. If you couple to a suspended wooden or ply sheet floor you are sending energy into it and making it an additional sound board for the speaker. The power rating for my subs is 350 700 1400 and the 3402 is 700watts at 8 ohms. What more can you teach me with regard to sub deployment and coupling.

Ok next subject regarding subs and their performance with respect to different power and coupling. The shaking of walls floor distubing neighbors is due to the long subwoofer sound waves. Here come the oh so common concrete is inert and doesn t need decoupling coupling your subwoofer or speakers to the floor using spikes is good because it makes them more stable and thus more inert comments.