me neither.

And it's only $620 for the nut shrinker.

 

Also, most nearfields have bass ports specifically to project lower frequencies out of the cabinet.

 

Ethan is the truth. He’s debunked so much BS over the past 2 decades.

 

"Shake it, shake it Sugeree, just don't tell'em you know me"

Of course I put something under my speakers to either decouple or absorb the monitors from the sympathetic resonance of whatever frequencies that are being played. I also have to put something on my acoustic guitars or take them out of the room entirely if I am using a guitar amp for the same reasons, the sympathetic resonance starts vibrating everything...sympathetically. I as of late have been using a volume of an old encyclopedia (are there any new ones anymore?) under each monitor and have found that it works marvelously, though I never blast them. When I lived in my apartment on East 4th Street in NYC under my loft bed I had fabricated a funky little isolation space for my guitar amp made almost entirely out of old encyclopedias that I had found on the street. The ceiling was a piece of scrap plywood and on top of that more Encyclopedia Britannicas.

 

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Really? I mix with zero isolation, but at low volume. apart from less vibrtion, this has its own benefits as low volumes show what really stands out in your mixes/the place on the munson curves is different.

If you have too much vibrtion, imo you're mixing too loudly/too bassily.

 

@junh1024 Imagine the thinnest walls and floors you can imagine......that's my apartment. So no loud mixing here.
Maybe you have a stable and proper stand for your speakers.
My point is if like most of us with less than optimal situations, i.e. a hollow cavity directly underneath like a rickity drawer, isolation will help in these instances.

 

you can cut one of these and job's done.. no need to buy nothing more..