I decided to finally get rid of all the various mechanical buzzes and noises in my room. I ran tone at various frequencies between 20Hz and 100 Hz and just followed my ears to the various sources of mechanical noise in the room. This included framed pictures, a loose access panel in the ceiling, and a particularly obnoxious CD rack whose panels vibrated like a drum. One by one I eliminated these resonating objects,by damping them with various dime store rubber bumpers or tying them down. I finally got to the end of the noise but one buzz/vibration remained.
To my surprise I discovered that the speakers themselves (both of them) were emitting sympathetic noise, between 20Hz and 100Hz, the worst of which seemed centered between say 40Hz and 90Hz. Salon 2s weight the better part of 175 pounds and I also have a pair of heavy JL Audio Subs contributing to the energy but it's the speakers themselves that are emitting the noises. The subs are crossed over to the Salons at 40Hz but don't seem to actually be producing spurious noises of their own. They may be contributing energy to the general situation that is causing the Salons to resonate but they are not the audible problem per se. The speakers are on their spikes which then want to penetrate a thick carpet and pad. Unfortunately, the underlying floor is soft and you can sense that it is likely part of the moving system that is creating this problem.
I thought rather than to try to couple the speakers to the floor with their spikes, I might look into isolating (decoupling) them instead. If I tilt either speaker onto two (of the four) spikes, the buzzes are significantly reduced. If I balance it on just one spike, the combination of whatever damping I am physically applying with my hands and the suspension of the whole speaker onto just one spike reduces the vibrations almost to inaudibility.
Sorry for this long winded explanation but perhaps it explains my interest in decoupling the speakers from the floor to the extent possible. So I'm looking into what materials and approach I can use to accomplish this at reasonable cost. Companies like Isoacoustics offer rather expensive solutions that may work but I am hoping that this can be done in a clever (cheaper) fashion if indeed such treatment is the most practical solution.
In sum, your experience with taming mechanically transferred vibrations of this type is welcomed and encouraged. I wasn't the guy who thought that isolating all the components in a system (at great expense) was a practical or necessarily proven thing to do but between the way the floor and my speakers and subs interact, I think I've got I've got a problem I can solve but I'm not sure exactly what to use to do that.
To my surprise I discovered that the speakers themselves (both of them) were emitting sympathetic noise, between 20Hz and 100Hz, the worst of which seemed centered between say 40Hz and 90Hz. Salon 2s weight the better part of 175 pounds and I also have a pair of heavy JL Audio Subs contributing to the energy but it's the speakers themselves that are emitting the noises. The subs are crossed over to the Salons at 40Hz but don't seem to actually be producing spurious noises of their own. They may be contributing energy to the general situation that is causing the Salons to resonate but they are not the audible problem per se. The speakers are on their spikes which then want to penetrate a thick carpet and pad. Unfortunately, the underlying floor is soft and you can sense that it is likely part of the moving system that is creating this problem.
I thought rather than to try to couple the speakers to the floor with their spikes, I might look into isolating (decoupling) them instead. If I tilt either speaker onto two (of the four) spikes, the buzzes are significantly reduced. If I balance it on just one spike, the combination of whatever damping I am physically applying with my hands and the suspension of the whole speaker onto just one spike reduces the vibrations almost to inaudibility.
Sorry for this long winded explanation but perhaps it explains my interest in decoupling the speakers from the floor to the extent possible. So I'm looking into what materials and approach I can use to accomplish this at reasonable cost. Companies like Isoacoustics offer rather expensive solutions that may work but I am hoping that this can be done in a clever (cheaper) fashion if indeed such treatment is the most practical solution.
In sum, your experience with taming mechanically transferred vibrations of this type is welcomed and encouraged. I wasn't the guy who thought that isolating all the components in a system (at great expense) was a practical or necessarily proven thing to do but between the way the floor and my speakers and subs interact, I think I've got I've got a problem I can solve but I'm not sure exactly what to use to do that.
