Multi-Mount Speaker Mounts Are Offered in Two (2) Sizes & Weight Capacities;
SM-1: Wt. Capacity 50lbs. ea., priced at $60.00 ea. + $10.00 for each Ten-Pack of VP-1 Viscoelastic Pellets
SM-2: Wt. Capacity 150lbs. ea., priced at $130.00 ea. + $18.00 for each Ten-Pack of VP-2 Viscoelastic Pellets

In the interest of economy, the Viscoelastic Pellets are sold separately in "packs" of ten (10) Pellets each so one can order only what is required by the weight of one's loudspeakers.

Description & Features:

Multi-Mount Speaker Mounts provide loudspeakers with user-adjusted, weight-optimized isolation from the floor, and they act as “sinks” that drain and damp loudspeaker cabinet vibration. The Speaker Mounts greatly reduce the transmission of mechanical speaker vibration to the floor and thus to any racks or stands placed upon the floor. This greatly reduces the level of disturbing “noise” that can pass into adjacent rooms or neighbors’ apartments. At the same time, the Mounts isolate the loudspeakers from floor-borne vibratory energy caused by playing music (acoustic energy) and any mechanically induced vibration caused by seismic activity, foot-fall, appliances, HVAC, wind, vehicular traffic, etc.

The Speaker Mounts are unique speaker isolation devices but the technology and application of their isolation and damping features is based upon well-established, irrefutable engineering science that is integral to vibration control in all major industries.

Speaker Mounts are not “tweaks” or “tuning” devices. They are not “additive” devices that shift tonal balance or exaggerate certain frequencies. Instead, they are “subtractive” because they minimize degrading vibratory energy. The resultant positive effects of loudspeaker isolation may vary from subtle to dramatic depending on the types of loudspeakers, building construction, flooring, and listening levels.

The Top Disc of the Speaker Mounts will accept virtually any stock loudspeaker “spike” in its wide conical counter-bore. With typical spikes that reach the bottom of the counter-bore, a loudspeaker is elevated only .660” off the floor with the SM-1 and 1” off the floor with the SM-2.

The outside diameters of the SM-1 and SM-2 Speaker Mounts measure 1.840” and 2.70” respectively. Both sizes have anodized aluminum 6061 alloy Bases. The SM-1 has a stainless steel Top Disc and the SM-2 uses an aluminum 6061 alloy Top Disc with a stainless steel Spike Socket. The Speaker Mounts are beautifully finished and machined to very close tolerances.

The Speaker Mounts provide very secure, “rock-solid” loudspeaker support!

Optional Spike Adapters provide the Speaker Mounts with proper coupling through any floor-covering.

The SM-1 Speaker Mount has an array of round counter-bores in the top surface of its Base, into which the user places from (1) to (16) Viscoelastic Pellets, depending upon the weight to be supported by the Mount. A single Pellet used in the SM-1 has a maximum weight capacity of 3lbs., and each Mount can accept up to (16) Pellets, therefore each SM-1 has a weight capacity of 48lbs. + a 5% margin = 50lbs. Higher loading is possible, but will result in declining effectiveness and durability of the Viscoelastic Pellets. Each "ten-pack" of VP-1 Viscoelastic Pellets can support up to 30lbs., so one simply divides the weight of one's Loudspeakers by 30, to calculate the required number of packs to purchase.

The SM-2 Speaker Mount has an array of round counter-bores in the top surface of its Base, into which the user places from (1) to (17) Viscoelastic Pellets, depending upon the weight to be supported by the Mount. A single Pellet used in the SM-2 has a maximum weight capacity of 8.4lbs., and each Mount can accept up to (17) Pellets, so therefore each SM-1 has a weight capacity of 143lbs. + a 5% margin = 150lbs. Higher loading is possible, but will result in declining effectiveness and durability of the Viscoelastic Pellets. Each "ten-pack" can support up to 84lbs., so one simply divides the weight of one's Loudspeakers by 84, to calculate the required number of packs to purchase.

The Speaker Mounts are very easy to set-up using the included Alignment Sleeve; place the required number of Pellets into the Base, slide the Sleeve over the Base, insert the Top Disc into the Sleeve and push down onto the Pellets, then remove the Sleeve.

The proprietary material, size and shape of the Viscoelastic Pellets are all vital to their extraordinary effectiveness of our loudspeaker isolation mounts. Each Pellet is a tiny "power-plant" of energy conversion. Moreover, unlike the viscoelastic parts in competing products that should be replaced each year - or sooner, the Pellets will provide undiminished performance for as many as 15-20 years, if they are not significantly overloaded.

The weight distribution of the Loudspeaker to be supported should be determined by the use of a (household) scale, which can be used to calculate the “load” or weight to be supported by each individual Speaker Mount. The Owner’s Manual gives illustrated instructions for performing these simple calculations.

Design & Technology:

Multi-Mount Speaker Mounts, like no other competing devices, provide user-adjustable, optimized isolation in sixteen (16) increments of 3lbs. each, with the SM-1 and seventeen (17) increments of 8.4lbs. each, with the SM-2, for ultimate loudspeaker performance. The Speaker Mounts are thereby, precisely weight-matched to the loudspeaker, making them the world's only truly “universal” loudspeaker isolation mounts.

Viscoelastics are weight sensitive. They perform poorly if they are under-loaded, or overloaded. A viscoelastic part provides optimum isolation, only within a narrow weight margin. Most competing devices and systems do not address these crucial limitations at all. Some offer a choice of a few "standard" viscoelastic parts or platforms to cover an excessively wide range of component weights, which is a poor compromise. But even these "better" systems ignore the critical issues of loudspeaker weight distribution and individual isolator loading.

Most loudspeakers are significantly heavier (usually in front) where the drivers are located and thereby will exert significantly different loads on the supporting isolators. Multi-Mount Speaker Mounts address this important issue because they are individually optimized (adjusted) for the loads they support.

The Viscoelastic Pellets provide superb damping of vibratory energy by hysteresis and superb isolation by both deformation and hysteresis. Unlike most elastomeric “isolators” which behave like an un-damped spring, the Pellets exhibit excellent “shock-rebound” (vertical isolation) properties similar to a high-performance viscous (fluid) shock absorber, in combination with a spring. In addition, unlike “hard” footers and those with thin, laminated or constrained viscoelastics, the Viscoelastic Pellets can deform laterally, and thereby act as elastomeric bearings - providing significant lateral isolation in addition to vertical isolation, for the benefit of the loudspeaker.

Loudspeaker Isolation & Damping Explained:

At minimum, prospective buyers of vibration control products should know the basic definitions of, and the distinctions between loudspeaker ISOLATION and DAMPING to enable them to make informed purchases.

ISOLATION refers to the process of preventing (minimizing) externally generated vibratory energy from reaching the loudspeaker. Although this includes acoustic or air-borne vibration that is difficult to manage in exposed audio/video equipment, we are primarily concerned with the transfer of mechanical vibration. And, it is essential to understand that there is no significant mechanical isolation possible unless there is relative movement between the loudspeaker and the floor to prevent sympathetic movement with the floor. Therefore, only a device or material that can compress like a spring or deform like an air-bag or a viscoelastic part, or “roll” like a bearing, can be an isolator. Exceptions to these “passive” examples include “active” systems that have electromechanical “self-leveling” capabilities. Obviously, hard “spikes” and (bare) "platforms" or "shelves" are not isolators.

DAMPING is the dissipation of energy in a vibrating structure or loudspeaker. It refers to the process of removing (minimizing) internally generated vibration that is inherent in a loudspeaker AND any external vibration, that for lack of adequate isolation, may enter the loudspeaker, by converting the mechanical vibratory energy of solids into heat energy - a process called hysteresis. Damping is generally accomplished by the bonding of viscoelastic sheet materials to the (vibrating) internal surfaces, mechanisms and parts of a loudspeaker and by external coupling to viscoelastic materials or damping devices.

Multi-Mount Speaker Mounts Are Patent-Pending