Decoupling Speakers So Many Options?

All of a sudden, that very same pet has all of its weight being applied to your legs through only four much smaller points of contact (ie. the pet's paws). If you are working in stereo, you have the challenge of not being able to co-locate speakers and the image width will be different, both of which will impact on the sound. The basic principle is that the speaker should vibrate, but the thing on which the speaker is standing shouldn’t. Vibrations get passed readily between objects but the effect can be reduced in two ways.

This will create high and mid frequency time and resolution smearing, which effectively sounded warmer and with greater imaging to my ears. It will also make the speakers less loud because they are using some of the energy to move the cabinets, which results with drop of speaker efficiency, to me quite audible. I think the whole idea of the spikes/cones is to couple the speaker to the floor to reduce the amount of low frequency vibration from moving the cabinet around and thus interefering with the bass response of the speaker. If you are considering a set you need to be sure that the product you are interested in was designed to be able to take the weight of your monitors. Users can either opt for using 3 or 4 pucks beneath each of their monitors as long as the pucks are positioned in such a way that means their monitors are stable and wobble free.

Coupling / decoupling, refers to harmonics, thus adding to the ROOM vibration, not the speaker. To decouple from a shaky wooden structure is almost always better. If you have a tip up structure, , that is different again. Coupling usually works, because mass is one of the easiest ways of controlling vibration.

However, the problem (as I understand it - I'm not a physicist however) is not in the 'buzz' as this would most likely only occur at resonant frequencies for whatever materials were in direct contact. The issue is that transmission through a substrate is not as dependent on those frequencies. One way to better understand why you would want the energy of the speaker separated from the structure is to imagine that you are sitting in a car.

Only thing i could come up with is the air movement being absorbed and transmitted by the large flat wall/floor surfaces.

Me, now that you have them cleaned up, I'd try them au-natural - just sit the things on the stands, studio monitors plop the stands on the floor, place appropriately and listen. Music is a clearer and 'more stereo' if you know what I mean. Imagine trying to rock a small row-boat with your body weight. But, the boat is also easily rocked by the waves on the water. Could you clarify whether your saying cement blocks are helpful or not.