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How do people feel about outriggers on speakers?
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Ok, installed after 12 years haha. The cat made me do it as he nearly knocked over the speakers when doing zoomies. They are slightly more stable after leveling and adjusting.
Bass has definitely tightened. Night and day in the upper bass. Even the mids are more chocolatey, veils lifted , wife in kitchen , yada yada.
Sorry, couldn't help myself.
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Should we start an argument about the quantity of outriggers that would 'sound better'?
3 or 4?
One is said to be more stable... The other lowers the weight on each leg.
3 or 4?
One is said to be more stable... The other lowers the weight on each leg.
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4 is more stable since the pivot point is further from the center of gravity. 3 is a magic number however and that has greater mythical properties.Should we start an argument about the quantity of outriggers that would 'sound better'?
3 or 4?
One is said to be more stable... The other lowers the weight on each leg.
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Lots of caveats in there. Luckily, the spikes are height adjustable so that all of them are touching the cups. The center of gravity is lower and further from the tipping plane in a mass support by 4 legs.This Brian dude disagrees with you:
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Right?!
Put three points as a base and raise the center of gravity and give a push.
Guess what’s gonna tip first? Especially if you happen to push against one side of that triangle!
And yes… I’ve seen this happen.
Geometry and physics are a b!tch, if you end up on the wrong side of them.
Put three points as a base and raise the center of gravity and give a push.
Guess what’s gonna tip first? Especially if you happen to push against one side of that triangle!
And yes… I’ve seen this happen.
Geometry and physics are a b!tch, if you end up on the wrong side of them.
They're the Lego blocks of high end audio, except sooner or later you will break a toe.
I was not aware that a wrecking-ball was going to be put on a 'tripod'.
Is it anything as easy as tipping-a-cow [not after the waitress served you your filet-mignon.]
It must be a 'bitch' to figure out which puts more pressure to the ground [re: a floor-speaker not a wrecking-ball experiment.]
I wouldn't want to mar the wood floor's finish with spikes.
dasdoing
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our feeding chair has them. there isn't a day I don't wish to throw it out of the window.
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Speakin' o outriggers, as I mentioned my Joseph floor standers are quite skinny and need the supplied outriggers to keep from tipping easy.
They were pretty steady on the floor (sitting on a deep shag rug) but I put together a speaker base to sit them on, which adds some solidity and also raises them
to the height I preferred. The base is two pieces of granite with a layer of car sound damping material in between them. Then being a wily Canuck, I used
some hockey pucks - two under the front outrigger to keep the right speaker tilt (I have an isoacoustics footers on the rear). And then the granite bass is
actually itself raised upon some hockey pucks which sit atop some circular carpet spikes. My goodness is this set up solid. Dead to the knuckle rap test
and the speakers feel solid as a rock on top of the base:
They were pretty steady on the floor (sitting on a deep shag rug) but I put together a speaker base to sit them on, which adds some solidity and also raises them
to the height I preferred. The base is two pieces of granite with a layer of car sound damping material in between them. Then being a wily Canuck, I used
some hockey pucks - two under the front outrigger to keep the right speaker tilt (I have an isoacoustics footers on the rear). And then the granite bass is
actually itself raised upon some hockey pucks which sit atop some circular carpet spikes. My goodness is this set up solid. Dead to the knuckle rap test
and the speakers feel solid as a rock on top of the base:
dasdoing
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something like this
it doesn't seam like much, but the outrigging "catches your foot" all the time
DavidShe
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I have some Sonus Faber floor-standing speakers that came with spikey outriggers. Such outriggers are helpful to couple speakers to the floor, in case you think that is desirable. Outriggers can also control vertical tilt, allowing tweeters to be aimed precisely. Outriggers raise speakers a little off the floor, having some effect on bass response. But ultimately I figured my outriggers were mostly a gimmick, so I discarded them years ago.
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Which outrigger product is this, DonR? They look better than what I've found to date. Thanks.View attachment 337762
Ok, installed after 12 years haha. The cat made me do it as he nearly knocked over the speakers when doing zoomies. They are slightly more stable after leveling and adjusting.
Bass has definitely tightened. Night and day in the upper bass. Even the mids are more chocolatey, veils lifted , wife in kitchen , yada yada.
Ah, no wonder they look good. Thanks.
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