Monitor Isolation Pads

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Are they worth the money? My Wharfie's are sitting atop On-Stage SMS-6000 Monitor Stands and I really wonder if they are worth using. Due to size of room constrictions, the monitor's are also about 4 inches from the wall. Will isolation pads make a difference here?
 
Can't hurt. What I use is 2 mouse pads (the thick rubberized ones) under each monitor. Seems to work well for my M-Audio BX8's and you can pick them up anywhere cheap.

DD
 
The cleaning lady brought some stuff for the shelving in the kitchen called "GripRite Extra." It is basically rubber that is non-adhesive but kind of sticky. It's about 1/4" thick and I was thinking about using that but after seeing the monitor isolation pads on Musician's Friend website I wonder if that is thick enough.
 
After I put my Mackies on MoPads, the bass definitely seems more focused.
 
my TR8's are just standing on a small piece of foam that i found in the box of my motherboard, like 1 cm thick and the exact size of the (bottom of) my monitors

it doesn't change the sound in any way,

but im gonna build me speaker stands this month, i think putting my speakers further away from my ears will change more than two 'basspads'
 
every condensor mic i've ever bought came with some kind of foam padding in the box or case. i just grabbed the foam out of my C1000s cases (since those mics never get touched anyway) and it seems to do a good job.
 
i use isolation pads with my wharfes and it is execellent (well really ive never used them without it, so maybe they suck) :)
.. but they were only $25 .. so what the hell (i tore the labels off so idont know what kind they are)
 
the mo pads are cosmetically better and have that angle cut...and are cheap as 3 pizzas from pizza hit.

i added a few different things under my speakers and the foam isolated it the best. By cranking it up and holding the table you can feel the "de-coupling" of the foam. (of course suspended in air would be better but thats not for another 20years or so)

reading some BW article, it's often designed into the speakers to be decoupled. To get optimum intended design of the speaker.

in other words the speaker should sound better as they don't design them to be coupled to your table or my table, as I understand it.

"keeps the bass in the cabinet where it belongs" was how some gearhead put it.

Foam is better than nothing, MoPads has less calories than pizza. :rolleyes:
 
Thanks guys! I'll use this rubber schtuff that I have until the Mopads come. Thanks again!
 
you'll also noticed another method is "contact point" surface, aka SPIKES.

look around and you'll find these pecision "spikes", various models/methods.

The decoupling is accomplished, by the spike, by eliminating the bass/vibration to contact/surface area, hence a tiny tip of the spike.

the tip of the spike has reduced the conatct area between your speaker and table to probably less than a thousandths or millmeter contact surface area.

"keeping the bass in the box where it belongs".

Foam doesn't scratch shit up like spikes do, tho. :)

Decoupling is usually recommended for Home Theater/HiFi systems to speaker cabnet design thing-a-ma-bob too.
 
Thanks Coolcat! I'll hopefully have some time later this evening to apply the rubber foamy schtuff that I have and see how it works.
 
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