Hockey Pucks!

deronb1
deronb1 Posts: 5,021
in DIY, Mods & Tweaks
Getting sticker shock on the price of subwoofer risers, I ended up buying a dozen hockey pucks for $18. Need ti get it up off carpet and should work fine.
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  • Mikey081057
    Mikey081057 Posts: 7,127
    Don Rickles approved !
    My New Year's resolution is 3840 × 2160

    Family Room| Marantz AV7704| Usher Dancer Mini - 2 DMD Mains |Usher Dancer Mini-x DMD's Surrounds | Usher BE-616 DMD Center | SVS Ultra Rear Surrounds | Parasound Halo A21 | Parsound Halo A52+ | MIT Shotgun S3's | Dual SVS SB 4000 Ultras | Oppo UDP 203 | Directv Genie HD DVR | Samsung 75" Q8 QLED | PSAudio Stellar GCD | Mytek Brooklyn DAC+ | Lumin U1 Mini | HP Elite Slice PC | ROON'd for life |

    ManCave: HT:Polk LSiM 706VR3 LSiM 703's LSiM 702's|| Marantz AV7002 AV PrePro Sunfire TGA-7401| Sony PS4 Pro| Sony PS4 Pro|SVS PB13 Ultra| Oppo UDP 203 | Music Hall MMF 5.3se TT w/ Soundsmith Carmen | Samsung 55" SUHD TV | Sony PS4

    Patio | Polk Atrium 8's | Yamaha R-N303BL |

    Office BlueSound Node| KEF LS50 | Peactree Nova 125SE |

    Bedroom | Focal 905's | Chromecast Audio |

    Garage | Polk Monitor 5B's

    Closet Yamaha M80 | 2 Polk MP3K subs| Yaqin MC100B with Shuguang Treasures KT 88's & CV181Z's | Tesla E83CC's | Marantz 2252B | Marantz 2385 |Polk SDA SRS 2.3 | LSiM 705's |
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  • FTGV
    FTGV Posts: 3,649
    edited September 2018
    deronb1 wrote: »
    , I ended up buying a dozen hockey pucks for $18.
    Were they made in Canada or the Czech Republic ? There are some subtle sonic differences between them.
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,445
    edited September 2018
    Russian hockey pucks tend to be the preferred combination of density and polymer blend, particularly at the sub-atomic level, where micro-acoustic properties come into play. The ones found at Chernobyl tend to put off unwanted sonic artifacts however, such as increased background noise.
    The Gear... Carver "Statement" Mono-blocks, Mcintosh C2300 Arcam AVR20, Oppo UDP-203 4K Blu-ray player, Sony XBR70x850B 4k, Polk Audio Legend L800 with height modules, L400 Center Channel Polk audio AB800 "in-wall" surrounds. Marantz MM7025 stereo amp. Simaudio Moon 680d DSD

    “When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.”— Thomas Jefferson
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  • Mikey081057
    Mikey081057 Posts: 7,127
    If you buy 77 US hockey pucks you can take them to Canada and trade them for 100 Canadian hockey pucks due to the exchange rate.
    My New Year's resolution is 3840 × 2160

    Family Room| Marantz AV7704| Usher Dancer Mini - 2 DMD Mains |Usher Dancer Mini-x DMD's Surrounds | Usher BE-616 DMD Center | SVS Ultra Rear Surrounds | Parasound Halo A21 | Parsound Halo A52+ | MIT Shotgun S3's | Dual SVS SB 4000 Ultras | Oppo UDP 203 | Directv Genie HD DVR | Samsung 75" Q8 QLED | PSAudio Stellar GCD | Mytek Brooklyn DAC+ | Lumin U1 Mini | HP Elite Slice PC | ROON'd for life |

    ManCave: HT:Polk LSiM 706VR3 LSiM 703's LSiM 702's|| Marantz AV7002 AV PrePro Sunfire TGA-7401| Sony PS4 Pro| Sony PS4 Pro|SVS PB13 Ultra| Oppo UDP 203 | Music Hall MMF 5.3se TT w/ Soundsmith Carmen | Samsung 55" SUHD TV | Sony PS4

    Patio | Polk Atrium 8's | Yamaha R-N303BL |

    Office BlueSound Node| KEF LS50 | Peactree Nova 125SE |

    Bedroom | Focal 905's | Chromecast Audio |

    Garage | Polk Monitor 5B's

    Closet Yamaha M80 | 2 Polk MP3K subs| Yaqin MC100B with Shuguang Treasures KT 88's & CV181Z's | Tesla E83CC's | Marantz 2252B | Marantz 2385 |Polk SDA SRS 2.3 | LSiM 705's |
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,894
    edited September 2018
    ahem -- in our abode, of course, vintage pucks are de rigueur.

    B)

    In seriousness, I am a big fan.

    These are good, too, for the $ and FWIW. Available in various sizes and thicknesses.
    If one is feeling a tad insecure vis-a-vis one's audiophile cred, they're also available with slightly different cosmetics as audio products at a much higher price. :|

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    https://www.amazon.com/Diversitech-MP4-V-Anti-Vibration-Pack/dp/B00BVEMLR4/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1537887145&sr=8-5&keywords=diversitech+pads

    I know folks with turntables more valuable than my car (actually, probably more valuable than all of our cars put together) that use 'em as opposed to the name brand

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    In my more febrile moments :# I wonder whether Rockler's Bench Cookies have any application in hifi...

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    https://www.thewoodwhisperer.com/articles/bench-cookies-yes-please/
    https://www.rockler.com/search/go?w=bench+cookies&view=grid
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  • deronb1
    deronb1 Posts: 5,021
    I will expound on the hockey puck / subwoofer symbiotic benefits at a later date :)
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  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 11,159
    edited September 2018
    https://www.thewoodwhisperer.com/articles/bench-cookies-yes-please/
    https://www.rockler.com/search/go?w=bench+cookies&view=grid[/quote]

    I bought some of these and gave some of them to an old friend to use as risers. I didn't buy them for vibration control at all, just for risers.
    They come in "Black" just for the home user. That's the color I bought. They were on sale too. :)B)
    Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,894
    deronb1 wrote: »
    I will expound on the hockey puck / subwoofer symbiotic benefits at a later date :)

    gonna hold you to that commitment...

    :)
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  • deronb1
    deronb1 Posts: 5,021
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    deronb1 wrote: »
    I will expound on the hockey puck / subwoofer symbiotic benefits at a later date :)

    gonna hold you to that commitment...

    :)

    Great! Another deadline..... :smile:
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,894
    deronb1 wrote: »
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    deronb1 wrote: »
    I will expound on the hockey puck / subwoofer symbiotic benefits at a later date :)

    gonna hold you to that commitment...

    :)

    Great! Another deadline..... :smile:

    I only do thermodynamics, not kinetics.
    Y'all should know that by now.
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  • deronb1
    deronb1 Posts: 5,021
    Well, im gussing the pucks will have almost zero potential energy with a 60 lb sub sitting on them on a slab :wink:
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  • Mikey081057
    Mikey081057 Posts: 7,127
    In Canada you can buy a sub woofer that looks like the Stanley Cup... OK maybe not...
    My New Year's resolution is 3840 × 2160

    Family Room| Marantz AV7704| Usher Dancer Mini - 2 DMD Mains |Usher Dancer Mini-x DMD's Surrounds | Usher BE-616 DMD Center | SVS Ultra Rear Surrounds | Parasound Halo A21 | Parsound Halo A52+ | MIT Shotgun S3's | Dual SVS SB 4000 Ultras | Oppo UDP 203 | Directv Genie HD DVR | Samsung 75" Q8 QLED | PSAudio Stellar GCD | Mytek Brooklyn DAC+ | Lumin U1 Mini | HP Elite Slice PC | ROON'd for life |

    ManCave: HT:Polk LSiM 706VR3 LSiM 703's LSiM 702's|| Marantz AV7002 AV PrePro Sunfire TGA-7401| Sony PS4 Pro| Sony PS4 Pro|SVS PB13 Ultra| Oppo UDP 203 | Music Hall MMF 5.3se TT w/ Soundsmith Carmen | Samsung 55" SUHD TV | Sony PS4

    Patio | Polk Atrium 8's | Yamaha R-N303BL |

    Office BlueSound Node| KEF LS50 | Peactree Nova 125SE |

    Bedroom | Focal 905's | Chromecast Audio |

    Garage | Polk Monitor 5B's

    Closet Yamaha M80 | 2 Polk MP3K subs| Yaqin MC100B with Shuguang Treasures KT 88's & CV181Z's | Tesla E83CC's | Marantz 2252B | Marantz 2385 |Polk SDA SRS 2.3 | LSiM 705's |
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,554
    deronb1 wrote: »
    Well, im zero potential energy :wink:
    And there's your new anti energy drink.
    B)B)
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  • SCompRacer
    SCompRacer Posts: 8,504
    edited September 2018
    I am offended by the word puck, though I use one similar frequently. :D
    Salk SoundScape 8's * Audio Research Reference 3 * Bottlehead Eros Phono * Park's Audio Budgie SUT * Krell KSA-250 * Harmonic Technology Pro 9+ * Signature Series Sonore Music Server w/Deux PS * Roon * Gustard R26 DAC / Singxer SU-6 DDC * Heavy Plinth Lenco L75 Idler Drive * AA MG-1 Linear Air Bearing Arm * AT33PTG/II & Denon 103R * Richard Gray 600S * NHT B-12d subs * GIK Acoustic Treatments * Sennheiser HD650 *
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,894
    What a puckish thing to say B)

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  • SCompRacer
    SCompRacer Posts: 8,504
    edited September 2018
    SO, while your setting Canadian or Czech pucks under your gear, are you pucking around for sound? :D
    Salk SoundScape 8's * Audio Research Reference 3 * Bottlehead Eros Phono * Park's Audio Budgie SUT * Krell KSA-250 * Harmonic Technology Pro 9+ * Signature Series Sonore Music Server w/Deux PS * Roon * Gustard R26 DAC / Singxer SU-6 DDC * Heavy Plinth Lenco L75 Idler Drive * AA MG-1 Linear Air Bearing Arm * AT33PTG/II & Denon 103R * Richard Gray 600S * NHT B-12d subs * GIK Acoustic Treatments * Sennheiser HD650 *
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  • deronb1
    deronb1 Posts: 5,021
    pitdogg2 wrote: »
    deronb1 wrote: »
    Well, im zero potential energy :wink:
    And there's your new anti energy drink.
    B)B)

    That might kill me
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  • deronb1
    deronb1 Posts: 5,021
    Ok, first of all, the pucks smelled great! Never smelled a freshly minted hockey puck before. Second, got the sub about an inch up off the carpet and tightened things up a bit. Well, that's about it.
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,445
    deronb1 wrote: »
    Ok, first of all, the pucks smelled great! Never smelled a freshly minted hockey puck before. Second, got the sub about an inch up off the carpet and tightened things up a bit. Well, that's about it.

    I don’t think I have ever read a more thought provoking and in depth review of anything ever in my lifetime. I found your comment about the aroma emitted by the pucks to be insightful and pertinent to moving the review forward and compelling enough to pull me in and inspire reading even further. Your methodology for raising the subwoofer just one inch was brilliantly thought out.

    You had me hanging on every word as you disclosed your findings of things being “tightened up”... wow!! And not be too much either. Just a bit.... more brilliance!



    I think I need a cigarette and some towelettes....
    The Gear... Carver "Statement" Mono-blocks, Mcintosh C2300 Arcam AVR20, Oppo UDP-203 4K Blu-ray player, Sony XBR70x850B 4k, Polk Audio Legend L800 with height modules, L400 Center Channel Polk audio AB800 "in-wall" surrounds. Marantz MM7025 stereo amp. Simaudio Moon 680d DSD

    “When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.”— Thomas Jefferson
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  • Mikey081057
    Mikey081057 Posts: 7,127
    The scent of hockey pucks being pleasurable or not is relative to the velocity at which it makes contact with your nose.... Talking from experience here....
    My New Year's resolution is 3840 × 2160

    Family Room| Marantz AV7704| Usher Dancer Mini - 2 DMD Mains |Usher Dancer Mini-x DMD's Surrounds | Usher BE-616 DMD Center | SVS Ultra Rear Surrounds | Parasound Halo A21 | Parsound Halo A52+ | MIT Shotgun S3's | Dual SVS SB 4000 Ultras | Oppo UDP 203 | Directv Genie HD DVR | Samsung 75" Q8 QLED | PSAudio Stellar GCD | Mytek Brooklyn DAC+ | Lumin U1 Mini | HP Elite Slice PC | ROON'd for life |

    ManCave: HT:Polk LSiM 706VR3 LSiM 703's LSiM 702's|| Marantz AV7002 AV PrePro Sunfire TGA-7401| Sony PS4 Pro| Sony PS4 Pro|SVS PB13 Ultra| Oppo UDP 203 | Music Hall MMF 5.3se TT w/ Soundsmith Carmen | Samsung 55" SUHD TV | Sony PS4

    Patio | Polk Atrium 8's | Yamaha R-N303BL |

    Office BlueSound Node| KEF LS50 | Peactree Nova 125SE |

    Bedroom | Focal 905's | Chromecast Audio |

    Garage | Polk Monitor 5B's

    Closet Yamaha M80 | 2 Polk MP3K subs| Yaqin MC100B with Shuguang Treasures KT 88's & CV181Z's | Tesla E83CC's | Marantz 2252B | Marantz 2385 |Polk SDA SRS 2.3 | LSiM 705's |
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,554
    Mikey081057 wrote: »
    The scent of hockey pucks being pleasurable or not is relative to the velocity at which it makes contact with your nose.... Talking from experience here....

    That explains that mug you sport B)
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,894
    Resisting the temptation to butcher an Apocalypse Now quotation in service of this thread.

    You hockey pucks, you!

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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,554
    Hockey pucks are incredibly useful. I keep a box of them for gunsmithing duties
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,894
    that's a big bore barrel.
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,554
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    that's a big bore barrel.

    go big or go home Doc. LOL

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,894
    like a punt gun :|
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  • deronb1
    deronb1 Posts: 5,021
    nooshinjohn wrote: »
    deronb1 wrote: »
    Ok, first of all, the pucks smelled great! Never smelled a freshly minted hockey puck before. Second, got the sub about an inch up off the carpet and tightened things up a bit. Well, that's about it.

    I don’t think I have ever read a more thought provoking and in depth review of anything ever in my lifetime. I found your comment about the aroma emitted by the pucks to be insightful and pertinent to moving the review forward and compelling enough to pull me in and inspire reading even further. Your methodology for raising the subwoofer just one inch was brilliantly thought out.

    You had me hanging on every word as you disclosed your findings of things being “tightened up”... wow!! And not be too much either. Just a bit.... more brilliance!



    I think I need a cigarette and some towelettes....

    Im glad you found it inspiring and an enjoyable read...lol
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  • FTGV
    FTGV Posts: 3,649
    pitdogg2 wrote: »
    Hockey pucks are incredibly useful. I keep a box of them for gunsmithing duties

    I use the ones I find with Toronto Maple leaf logo's for target practice.
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,554
    FTGV wrote: »
    pitdogg2 wrote: »
    Hockey pucks are incredibly useful. I keep a box of them for gunsmithing duties

    I use the ones I find with Toronto Maple leaf logo's for target practice.

    I knew there was a reason I liked you!
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,554
    Drill small and different sized holes through them and drive roll and other pins out and capture at the same time.

    Route a V-knotch across to hold small heavy "pipe" like things as well.

    Route 1/2 round in two use them to clamp things in a vice

    A thick heavy durable substrate to pound on and non marring as well.

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