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  1. brickZA

    Materials for inexpensive speaker isolation

    Haha, yep, that'll do it. Better be sure about your speaker placement though ;-)
  2. brickZA

    Materials for inexpensive speaker isolation

    True enough. There are, of course, more than one way of skinning a cat! You can deal with a resonance by damping it down, which is what the carpet would do. At the same time, if your speaker placement is such that it does not couple to the floor's resonant mode it simply won't be excited and...
  3. brickZA

    Moondrop Quarks - budget earbuds

    I got me some Quarks recently on a lark, basically to have cheap, smallish, earphones that work lying on my side for ASMR videos to fall asleep to ;) I did reckon it might be nice to have something that sounds OK too so the Quarks looked like a good deal. Got them locally from STPOnline. I'm...
  4. brickZA

    Materials for inexpensive speaker isolation

    As someone who has never re-modeled a kitchen, what kind of places to do you go to for cutoffs? Do you need to find specialist stone places or can you just ask random kitchen companies?
  5. brickZA

    Materials for inexpensive speaker isolation

    Thanks to all for the various suggestions, will let you know what I ended up doing when I get there :) For those suggesting squash balls, so you cut them in half or otherwise how do you prevent things from rolling away?
  6. brickZA

    Materials for inexpensive speaker isolation

    Hi, I have a pretty resonant wooden floor and want to isolate my speakers (B&W CDM2) from a stand and the stand from the floor. I'm looking for materials that are, preferably, locally available and don't cost the earth. Sorbothane seems to come recommend quite often, but only seems readily...
  7. brickZA

    Introductions Thread

    Hi All! Neilen here. Got into audio around 1998 as a student by buying demo model B&W CDM2s with money made working over the long break that went into a stone soup system with my digs mates. One provided a pretty decent Denon amp similarly procured and the other a pretty old (even back then)...
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