Spiking my Sontubes

[VictorG]

Gents!

I write today again seeking your wisdom. I have set up my tubes at the new apartment at college. They are quite beasty and bassy, the only problem is i took the spikes off for transportation and have, er, lost them.

They are gonna cost me 50 bucks at least to replace, and I am on the student budget of zero. My roommate has about 100 extra feet of double sided 1/8 inch spacer tape from when he built his electrostats.... can't i put this down on the edges?

I mean it should stop all movement of the wood against the floor which is currently causing unpleasant vibration right???

(There is a wood foot at the bottom of each sonotube which contacts the floor currently)

Thanks for your help guys.
brian

[johninCR]

2 schools of thought on subs are isolation and direct coupling. Isolation will be more neighbor friendly in an apartment complex, so rubber pads made out of that 2 sided tape would be good under the legs. Spikes like you had before couples the cab to the floor better and passes the vibrations into the structure. That might be OK for the ground floor, but not otherwise.

[Nelson Pass]

If that doesn't work, spike the punch.

[inertial]

Hi all , ( sorry for my english)
I suggest you to try the true isolation method.
In observance of Isaac Newton you must be suspended the cabinet
( or other audio component) at a subsonic frequency (1-2 Hz) with the
minimum possible damping.
There is only two way to achieve it:
- Newport air spring ( or MOSS air spring ,in Italy)
- resilient cables from the ceiling !

Best regards from Venezia

[GRollins]

Cheap spikes?
Put a nail (roofing--the short, stout ones) through a piece of wood. The wood supports the cabinet and the nail goes to the floor. Cheap and effective.

Grey