Originally posted by The Devil
....well I'll leave you to work it out, since you seem to know....?
Actually, I really don't know and I'm trying to get a handle on it.
If your speaker cabinets have considerable vibration, do you spike them to the floor and risk vibrating the floor or decouple them and live with the consequences?
If they don't vibrate noticeably, what then?
Even concrete floors vibrate. Is it more important to decouple the equipment from the floor to prevent the vibrations getting to the equipment or are the vibrations within the equipment itself so detrimental that the most important thing is to couple the equipment to the floor?
Should efforts be made to stop the floor vibrating? Do you brace your wooden floorboards (increase the frequencies of the vibrations) or make the floor more 'massy'. What if your listening room is on the top floor, how much mass can the floor take?
I honestly believe that there are so many variables that the only satisfactory answer is to suck it and see. I don't believe that there is any 'one size fits all' solution.
So believe me, I wasn't trying to be funny. I was genuinely interested in what Mana's approach is when the floor is vibrated substantially by the speakers.
All music is vibration. How do I keep those good vibrations a-happening to me?