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How do people feel about outriggers on speakers?
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pseudoid
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I gave him a Like, on your behalf.
This is what chatGPT sez about him:
I have another question for his wisdom but at another thread...
Oh dear. The pressure is on.
They were on an extended vacation last year at some point. I just checked and their website is down. I know it wasn't a full-time business. All that said, they sourced and sold a quality product.Sounds familiar. It was so long ago I have forgotten.
EDIT: I just checked the box and it was Soundocity.
I've been absolutely satisfied with the 4 pairs of Outriggers I bought from them back in 2018/19. The best part of their business is they never tried to claim anything magical, at least not that I saw.
Perhaps they will resurface at some point. Definitely a very good resource if someone was looking for such product.
You want to talk about pressure! LoL> My last name means, "Gentle Dove." I understand that many names longgg ago where made from humor, local features of the terrain etc.. This one is intriguing.Oh dear. The pressure is on.
pseudoid
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Ohhhh! I am not going to be liked:
If you have enough room for outriggers; then, you probably own the wrong size speakers?
That's how my 'math' works and -of course- ymmv!
If you have enough room for outriggers; then, you probably own the wrong size speakers?
That's how my 'math' works and -of course- ymmv!
Mojo Warrior
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I have 5 foot towers, suspended wooden floors, 5 stories up in my building and I live in earthquake country.
This is one of the very, very few tweaks that audibly improved the sound. If you live on a concrete slab YMMV
Now the speakers are less likely to get knocked over accidentally.
Less likely to fall over in an earthquake or tremor.
Far less transmission of sound to the rooms below the speakers.
This is one of the very, very few tweaks that audibly improved the sound. If you live on a concrete slab YMMV
Now the speakers are less likely to get knocked over accidentally.
Less likely to fall over in an earthquake or tremor.
Far less transmission of sound to the rooms below the speakers.
In the 80s and 90s it was popular to brace the back of speaker against a wall for the purpose of preventing the speaker from rocking forward and backward if a heavy woofer was in motion. It was intended to prevent loss of energy and impact.
I use the outriggers on my NHT 3.3s, they're dangerous without them. But not the spikes. Floor is carpeted and with the outriggers the speakers slide just fine (for 123 pounders). With the spikes, forget about it
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Are they NHT-specific outriggers? I'm trying to find something that will work with my soon-to-arrive 4'H x 1.5'W x 2'D Altec duplex cabinets as they're gonna weigh upwards of 100 lbs each sans driver and it would suck on many, many levels if either of them fell over.
Out-riggers are toe-killers.
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Sudden memory flashback - One of my tall, wide, and shallow speakers fell forward onto the carpet in the 1989 "World Series" earthquake! (I live in Sunnyvale California.) No damage. I have no idea why only one fell over. They were both along the same wall facing the same direction.
They are. Your cabinets seem like they'd be plenty stable without. The 3.3s are only about 6" wide.
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If the speakers are tall and skinny, I think they are a necessity almost.
With some speakers the risk isn’t only falling sideways
If the drivers are on the top half of the baffle, they can nearly as easily topple forward. Especially if in an effort to make them compact, they also have a smallish depth
I have some Monitor Audio mini towers like this. Stereophile called them “svelte”. Their centre of gravity is very high
In the 80s and 90s it was popular to brace the back of speaker against a wall for the purpose of preventing the speaker from rocking forward and backward if a heavy woofer was in motion. It was intended to prevent loss of energy and impact.
I can’t tell if that’s a joke or true.
The only kinds of people I can picture who might brace their speakers against a wall are the low-end of heavy rockers, in a band like Spinal Tap or Bad News
More likely than most people to have an interest in bondage.
Better safe than sorry
Off topic, but that combination, I have to ask: do you experience anything like this?
I just got some similar sized towers (4 1/2 foot), about to set them up. Mofi 888’s - extended bass and decent dynamics
I would imagine that your towers would also be “respectable” in those two particular aspects
The last time I had speakers with extended bass, sitting on a suspended wooden floor, when I played music with a reasonable amount of low bass (30s and 40s Hz range) I’d swear that the lower bass (having the most energy) was causing the floorboards (pine boards, six-inches wide, half an inch thick) to reverberate at the same frequency/s.
As we know, in pop and rock, etc a lot of music is recorded with close mics = zero ambience
The floorboards added something not in the music … the reverberating floor. As you’d expect, the higher the listening level and the more low bass content the greater the effect. Call it audiophile heresy, lol but I found that very enjoyable. It added a “vibe” which to me was “in the direction of” listening to the music being performed live in a bar.
Probably more so because the room was 32 foot long.
Do you experience anything like that?
< you said yours was on a top floor, fwiw the 888s are going onto the timber floor of a mezzanine, which opens onto a small but tall atrium. That should be interesting! lol
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