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Sorbothane anti-vibration feet for speakers and HiFi components
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Sorbothane Anti-Vibration Feet


An amazing visco-elastic product that is designed to actively reduce vibrations from speakers, HiFi and audio equipment by up to 95%.

Now you can truly hear what your speakers were designed for and capable of.


Studio Monitor Pack


Pack Includes:

Eight 25mm diameter x 12.5mm high Sorbothane hemishperes (4 for each monitor) designed to support monitors weighing up to 9.5kg each. Each hemisphere includes PSA (peel-off sticky backing) and a special Urethane coating for easy handling and no marks on wooden surfaces.

Four 25mm high rubber spacers which enable you to optionally angle your monitors to the correct critical listening angle (up or down). Spacers also include PSA (peel-off sticky backing.

Recommendations & tips for installation.

Studio Speaker Pack including 8 Sorbothane Feet and and 4 spacers.

Studio monitor with Sorbothane anti-vibration feet. Studio monitor with Sorbothane anti-vibration feet.

Heavy Speaker Pack


Pack Includes:

Four 50mm diameter x 25mm high Sorbothane hemishperes (4 for each speaker/sub-woofer) designed to support heavy floor standing speakers and ideal for sub-woofers weighing up to 50kg each. Each hemisphere includes PSA (peel-off sticky backing) and a special Urethane coating for easy handling and no marks on wooden surfaces.

Recommendations & tips for installation.

Heavy Speaker & sub-Woofer Pack including 4 50mm Sorbothane Feet.


Sorbothane Test Results

Having recently purchased some of the World's most popular foam speaker isolation products & Sorbothane feet for my studio I decided it was high time I checked their actual performance. To do this I recorded the vibrations/sound from the underside of the wooden (MDF) studio desk directly beneath a monitor. I used the same short music clip which includes a good dose of both mid frequencies and most importantly the problem bass frequencies. I tested a wide range of both specific speaker isolation and general rubber, foam, wood, steel, aluminium & hybrid products. The results are shown in the screenshot below:

Studio monitor vibration test results.

Listen to the test results:

Nothing

USA Foam Pads

China Foam Pads

4 Rubber Feet

Sorbothane


Conclusions
1. Do not stand your speakers or monitors straight on a wooden surface (floor, desk, bench or shelf). If you do then you are simply not listening to what is coming from your speakers - you are listening to a mess of competing noises.
2. Foam rubber, regardless of thickness or manufacturer, is a very poor absorber of lower mid and bass frequencies. We can't recommend using any foam product under your speakers or audio/HiFi component.
3. Rubber feet are good for avoiding vibration damage to your speakers and wooden surfaces but do not absorb lower mid or bass frequencies and therefore will not improve the clarity of your sound.
4. Sorbothane is the proven and cost effective solution for this problem common to all studios and critical listening environments.
5. Hard feet (steel spikes, stone or wood) will provide very limited if any reduction in vibration. Most of these materials are actually excellent vibration transmitters. (for further in-depth analysis of this problem see this excellent Recording Magazine article by Bruce Black who explains all of the above brilliantly).