Advice on Speaker Stands
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Re: Advice on Speaker Stands
I have no preference that I wish to place out there as it will depend on floor type, construction, and also walls believe it or not. I still don't fully understand as when I think I have got it an exception happen. One was a couple of wobbly three legged stools (you still see them in some of my old pics) I found in a charity shop for fiver, they worked well up stairs in my work room in Epping with a ply wood floor laid over beams, down stairs on the float concrete floor they didn't. Here in Sidcup they didn't work anywhere so they went on the fire. One of the best things on a concrete float was a pile of bricks. I also mention walls as modern houses are board, and they rattle if the energy gets to them, which it will with suspended floor, bricks wont move and breeze about the same, and obviously concrete floats don't move.
Overall I favour mass, as much as possible, as that can even overcome suspended floor problems, and remember the bigger the drive unit the more energy is moving. So look at it yourself and explore the options as it is not *just* stand, the stand has to work with the floor and the room as well as the speaker.
Cheap solution, just get a pile of bricks on a large heavy paving stone underneath and smaller one on top.
Overall I favour mass, as much as possible, as that can even overcome suspended floor problems, and remember the bigger the drive unit the more energy is moving. So look at it yourself and explore the options as it is not *just* stand, the stand has to work with the floor and the room as well as the speaker.
Cheap solution, just get a pile of bricks on a large heavy paving stone underneath and smaller one on top.
Re: Advice on Speaker Stands
The issue seems to be volume related with those tracks. A slight reduction to 10 o'clock and the distortion disappears. Random.
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Re: Advice on Speaker Stands
Is it one or both speakers ? If one then switch them over to see if the rattle is in the speaker or the stand.
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Re: Advice on Speaker Stands
Feck nose mate, this is a hands on process, it could be anything. Is it both speakers. A distortion doesn't mean anything. It could be a window rattling as far I know. Follow it with your ears and find it, is it from the drive unit itself, It could have come loose or got itself an air leak, but that is one in a hundred possibilities.
It is like asking me to mend your car or diagnose the fault without driving it. Pin it down a bit and we might be more help.
It is like asking me to mend your car or diagnose the fault without driving it. Pin it down a bit and we might be more help.
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Re: Advice on Speaker Stands
Don't know if this helps.
When I was installing the Doc's new Kevlar bass drivers in my old-style Cubes I heard an odd buzzing occasionally from one side. Only really noticeable if an acoustic contrabass was playing solo, and over a certain volume level.
After consulting NVA HQ I discovered that one of the internal wires was running too close to the driver and vibrating against it in certain circumstances (low frequencies, high volume). A quarter-turn of the driver in the cabinet solved the problem.
Like the Doc said - first try to localise the origin of the rattling. Then process of elimination on probable causes.
When I was installing the Doc's new Kevlar bass drivers in my old-style Cubes I heard an odd buzzing occasionally from one side. Only really noticeable if an acoustic contrabass was playing solo, and over a certain volume level.
After consulting NVA HQ I discovered that one of the internal wires was running too close to the driver and vibrating against it in certain circumstances (low frequencies, high volume). A quarter-turn of the driver in the cabinet solved the problem.
Like the Doc said - first try to localise the origin of the rattling. Then process of elimination on probable causes.
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Re: Advice on Speaker Stands
I'm not describing the issue very well. It isn't rattling, it's resonance or distortion. Like a harmonic issue.
I'd just record it if I had a decent microphone.
I'd just record it if I had a decent microphone.