Decouple Speaker From Floor

I was under the impression that this is the best option but now i am getting confused.

Decouple speaker from floor.

That s fairly straight forward as it stops transmissions radiating through the floor and to the listener prior to the airborne sound hitting them. Maybe you hate the way audio speaker stands look. Or sometimes we are told that we need to couple our speakers to the floor with spikes. I have installed padding and carpet to calm down the footfalls.

You will have to keep in mind that audio coupling works both ways if your speaker is coupled to the floor it will transmit vibrations to the floor but the floor will also transfer. So we need to address the vibrations to the floor first. Or at least do it in a more valid and musically engaging manner whatever the descriptive term. I m not sure if that is the right term.

You may be wondering why you may wish to decouple your speaker if the attached material can become part of the speaker and help add to the sound emission. So we decouple the subwoofer. Is this worse than hat channels. However some give the impression that coupling the stands to the floor increases their effective mass and hence stops.

So we have this vibration which couples directly with the floor if you set it on the floor then obviously we have the pressure generated from the subwoofer itself. Rim joist would be hung on existing studs. Banging the floor with foot gives you a sense that furniture and fixture is going down. Here s why you might want to reconsider.

Now there are spikes and all kinds of other things but i m going to propose something else. The building is very old and wooden floor is too alive. Whatever the reason plenty of people place their audio speakers on the floor. Or maybe you re going for a college chic aesthetic with everything from your mattress to your tv on the floor.

I want to decouple ceilings from the floor above. Hello i have recently moved to new apartment and now face a strange problem. If i am walking in one corner of apartment the vibration from steps can be felt in other corner. The one logical thing is to decouple the speakers from the stand itself.