Vibrapods for the center
afterburnt
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I read about someone using vibrapods under their center channel. Mine sits on glass and steel tv stand along with my 4 blue ray players. Does anybody think it would help to isolate the speaker from the shelves?
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Why do you have 4 Blu-ray players???Political Correctness'.........defined
"A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."
President of Club Polk -
Why do you have 4 Blu-ray players???
Actually I have 5 one is in the bedroom. One of the four is a PS3. Each one has a purpose that I have yet to figure out.
Anyway what do you think about the vibrapods to isolate the center channel vibration from the shelf?
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afterburnt wrote: »Each one has a purpose that I have yet to figure out.
Like if you enter a secret code in the menus one of them can play VHS?
I thought all Blu-ray players had the same purpose.
I assume you're asking the question in the OP regarding your new turntable? The center channel should never be on at the same time as your turntable anyway.afterburnt wrote: »They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.
Village Idiot of Club Polk -
Each one has a purpose that I have yet to figure out.
Sounds like a personal problem....LOLAnyway what do you think about the vibrapods to isolate the center channel vibration from the shelf?
Not much.
Political Correctness'.........defined
"A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."
President of Club Polk -
do you have feet on that center at all, or is it straight flat surface to surface?
I'd at least put some semi-firm feet on it.
what's the deal with Vibrapods? are they like sorbothane?
just as an exercise, what kind of "system" is this defined as?
the glass shelf seems like it would be flexy/resonant, and would rob sound from a speaker mounted directly on it, flat on flat.
would a center channel follow the same convention as a bookshelf speaker? if so, would we seek to couple the speaker to the shelf or decouple it?
how does the shelf's mounting method to the rest of the stand factor in? (presuming it's sitting on small corner brackets or pegs?)I disabled signatures. -
afterburnt wrote: »Each one has a purpose that I have yet to figure out.
Like if you enter a secret code in the menus one of them can play VHS? I thought all Blu-ray players had the same purpose.
I assume you're asking the question in the OP regarding your new turntable? The center channel should never be on at the same time as your turntable anyway.
No, totally unrelated to the TT. I was wondering about the center vibrating the shelfs. The center is on the top shelf and the BDP's and an amp are on the other shelfs. All of the glass is on little self stick bumpers and the center is on the little pads that it came with.
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if the goal is to prevent the center from vibrating the shelf system, then you'd probably want to isolate it with something squishy?
if the goal is to get the center speaker to perform its best, then that mounting method may be different. I still don't have enough experience with speaker mounting, eg, coupling/decoupling (hoping someone else chimes in here with more info)
it sounds like in this case that you don't really care about the center's performance, and are just more interested in isolating the other components from the effects of the center in the rack system. in that case, I'd probably look at putting absorbent feet on those other components, as well as possibly placing damping feet on the center to reduce its effect on the shelf, and thereby the rack and other pieces. it may damp the speaker's output though?I disabled signatures. -
msg I just asked because I read someone's review of vibrapods on Amazon. The said they used them on their center channel speaker to decouple it from the TV stand. It never occurred to me that this could be and issue so I figured I would ask.
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Its gona sound better but slightly.
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the center is on the little pads that it came with.
Perfect, it's decoupled. Next.
Political Correctness'.........defined
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President of Club Polk -
the center is on the little pads that it came with.
Perfect, it's decoupled. Next.
Classic F1Nut response.
afterburnt wrote: »They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.
Village Idiot of Club Polk -
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F1, you got a laymans explanation of "couple, decouple"?the center is on the little pads that it came with.
Perfect, it's decoupled. Next.
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Sure....when you get married you couple. When you get divorced you decouple.Political Correctness'.........defined
"A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."
President of Club Polk -
Sure....when you get married you couple. When you get divorced you decouple.
Really, so that is when your house leaves you and your wife follows? Been there, next question...
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pearsall001 wrote: »I use rubber door stoppers that work perfectly for my application. You can raise or lower the speaker accordingly. Dirt cheap too...I like that!
I did that also, and it worked great.
I also have my center on top of my LSiW sub. If the movie is wide-screen versus HD 16x9 then I have wood shelves to raise the center so that it's top is just inside the movie. That is when I am in super-picky evaluation mode.
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