On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:14:53 -0400, mm
wrote:

If you want really good sound you should get the Monster Foam Rubber
Pads.

I have my JBL speakers sitting on small cardboard boxes. They do a
good job isolating the speaker from the floor. Foam is probably
better, but not much.

They prevent the vibration of the speakers from causing the FM
tuner to vibrate, preventing acoustic resonance and high-frequency
feedback.

Huh? Is that like microphonics in the FM tuner? Easy to see if it's
a problem. Just bang on the tuner with the volume turned up. Hear
anything from the speaker? If not, don't worry about microphonics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microphonics

"The only better method is to have your sound system in
Skylab." -- Emil Dolby.

If you watch the NASA channel, you sometimes get bits of the music
they play in Skylab. Due to weight considerations, it's probably
something like a single, mono, 4" loudspeaker hung off of one of the
computahs.

The pads are only 43 dollars each and you only need four of them per
device. But they are far better than other brands of foam rubber.

My cardboard boxes were free.

You have spent so much on your sound system. Don't waste it by
economizing on Foam Rubber.

When I was going to kollege in the 1960's, I worked for Federated
selling hi-fi on commission. It didn't take long to notice that the
commission on speakers and accessories was much higher than the
commission on stereos and tuners. So, I sold speakers. I would
connect a really cheapo 6 transistor AM/FM portable radio to the best
speakers on the floor. The customers would walk in and eventually ask
which tuner was playing, I would pull out the cheapo radio by the
leads from behind the speaker and explain that it's the speaker that
makes the sounds, not the electronics. I sold quite a few expensive
speakers and cheap tuners that way. Don't waste your money on foam
rubber band-aids. Get a decent speaker system.


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