Hockey Pucks and your Speakers...

[jdandy]

[Haurock]

Hockey pucks!!.... kind of makes sense though, according to Wikipedia...

Ice hockey requires a hard disk of vulcanized rubber. A standard ice hockey puck is black, 1 inch (25 mm) thick, 3 inches (76 mm) in diameter, and weighs between 5.5 and 6 ounces (160 and 170 g);

Should make for an excellent isolation device while protecting your floors...fancy them up abit and you could probably get a much higher profit... ..

Here's a new trinket... AA hockey pucks....

[bodiezaffa]

Originally Posted by jdandy

One set for every household

[bzr]

Originally Posted by Haurock

Hockey pucks!!.... kind of makes sense though, according to Wikipedia...

Ice hockey requires a hard disk of vulcanized rubber. A standard ice hockey puck is black, 1 inch (25 mm) thick, 3 inches (76 mm) in diameter, and weighs between 5.5 and 6 ounces (160 and 170 g);

Should make for an excellent isolation device while protecting your floors...fancy them up abit and you could probably get a much higher profit... ..

Here's a new trinket... AA hockey pucks....

I'm in, I believe in the puck!

[John James]

Excuse my ignorance please. What exactly do the spikes do and don't the pucks defeat the purpose of the spikes? Seems to me you could eliminate the spikes or the pucks.

[metaphacts]

Originally Posted by John James

Excuse my ignorance please. What exactly do the spikes do and don't the pucks defeat the purpose of the spikes? Seems to me you could eliminate the spikes or the pucks.

Spikes, or some other form of height adjustment are necessary for proper set up. Rake and/or side to side verticality are an important part of in room speaker set up. Especially true with a tall panel.

[John James]

Originally Posted by metaphacts

Spikes, or some other form of height adjustment are necessary for proper set up. Rake and/or side to side verticality are an important part of in room speaker set up. Especially true with a tall panel.

I understand positioning. I was wondering about "coupling".

[metaphacts]

Originally Posted by John James

I understand positioning. I was wondering about "coupling".

Coupling is more complex than spike or indirect spike.

Another thing that is happening when you add a hockey puck is a change in height and floor bounce. Will be different and could be readjusted (rake) to partially compensate, but few do it when a-b ing.

[John James]

Originally Posted by metaphacts

Coupling is more complex than spike or indirect spike.

There's the part I don't understand. The way I see it the spikes "couple' the speaker to the floor much more solidly and therefore allow the drivers to move independently from the cabinet. Putting pucks between the spikes and the floor negates the connection.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

[bradleyc]

I've read on another forum that has a puck thread that the pucks do not do anything when placed directly under the feet of your components, doesn't mention speakers with spikes. I am using the foam practice hockey pucks under some of my lighter gear with one 3/4" thick piece of MDF on top of 4 or more foam pucks. Haven't tried any A/B comparisons but the foam pucks are much softer than regular pucks and seem to be absorbant...