Your listening chair

I was wondering what everyone uses for a listening chair/sofa/beanbag/whatever? I ask because I've tried a few different chairs and they all had annoying resonances that would go off mightily at certain frequencies and be fairly distracting. Does anyone have a chair that doesn't resonate and annoy them when they crank their hifi to stupid levels?

(I know I need to look into some sort of platform to decouple my speakers from the suspended wooden floor as that must be transmitting most of the vibes, but some of the frequencies are quite high and I suspect are just coming through the air. The sort of frequences that set off the foam padding...)

Dunc

 

Dunc have you tried your chair on mana?

and was your toungue firmly in your cheek when you wrote this or are you serious.

P

 

Our sofa vibrates around mid bass area, i quite like it

 

The seat of power (in the last house)

and the view from the throne in the new

 

your feet are fitted incorrectly

 

Nice nails Tom.

Whats your weekend name?

 

His feet aren't the wrong way round - the negative was!

Bob

 

Of course, I'm such a fool! Can't believe I didn't think of that... Might be a bit wobbly, though... Not to mention a real bitch if you stub your toe on it!

Heh, sadly not! I get genuinely annoyed by the various resonances and vibrations in my chair, and if at all possible I'd like to get one that doesn't do it so much! I thought a big, solid, comfy chair would do it so I tried one but it just had lower frequency resonaces which were just as annoying (my current chair is a fairly simple, cheap, black leather Ikea jobbie). Sounds like a joke but sadly 'tis not....

Dunc

 

I've got an oldish sofa...very comfy, sounds better now that its perched on top of some Nordost Pulsar Points.....!

 

I use on of these, but with a dark blue alcantara style finish:



The finish of the woodwork is pretty lousy when you look close, but it's very comfortable, and was dirt cheap when compared to the competition.

 

if your chair is vibrating that means that the volume is 'sufficient'.
cheers


julian

 

Ah Mike...the ubquitous Ikea arm chair. I think they're excellent.

Michael.

 

Dunc

My chair vibrates at low frequencies, but I quite like it, Would a cotton chairpad not help?

I would suggest maybe a sheepskin or some such, to cover chair, some of the resonances could be coming through the wooden frame, if on a wooden floor sans carpet, then place chair on a rug or get large rubber feet to sit runners on.

other than that heve'nt got a clue.

Or turn it down you anti social un neighbourly selfish bampot
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ps "...stub your toe..."

 

I'm picking up good vibrations......

 

How about a ceramic chair? Ceramic is used for spikes etc so presumably it has a non resonant character?
But then i guess that would be a toilet

 

They're given me excitations,....ooh, ooh, ohh, goooooood vibrahhhhhhstions.

 

My god no wonder you get piles!!!

 

Its the vibration that does it, angle of the dangle an all that.

 

:rds2: Your chairs vibrate? Tonite with the lights off I will see if it moves too.