Auralex MoPADs do these work??

Not sure on the ones for speakers, but I just bought a Gramma for my sub and it made a difference in the sound. Seemed to tighten up the bass.

I too own the gramma and have to agree on the sound/feel improving. I also own a set of Auralex panels and after some experimenting have noticed an improvement in resonance and my soundstage.

Work to do what? What do you intend to use them for? Do you really need the isolation that they may provide? Unless you want to angle the speakers, they shouldn't really be necessary for your L/R speakers. Simple furniture bumpers atop the stands or on the bottoms of the speakers usually work great. They'd allow you to angle your center speaker, but that can be done pretty easily other ways, too. I have a pack that I have never opened. They look like they will "work", if by "work" you mean support a speaker and provide some damping. They're basically just some dense foam.

You put the bumpers on the stand (or the speakers) yourself. If your center speaker is directly on a table then, yes, it could probably benefit from being isolated from the table with some sort of damping material. There are all sorts of ways to accomplish this. A mousepad (or mousepads) will work great. (A mousepad cut to fit will work great atop your speaker stands, too.) A piece of carpeting. A towel, even. It's not rocket science.

Just some rubber protective bumpers. Softer ones will be best.

Here are several versions. There are all sorts of sizes and shapes. Just go look at Home Depot, Lowe's, local hardware store.

http://products3.3m.com/catalog/us/e...er/output_html

If you need to angle your center speaker, you can use bigger bumpers in the front, smaller in the back. Or just stack the front ones.

BTW, if you center speaker is on a table, you need to pull it forward until the front is at least in line with the front of the table if not even hanging out a bit in front.

Hi guys, didn't want to make a new thread for this. I am waiting on a couple Polk Monitor 30s to arrive for use in near field listening on my wood desk. In the meantime, I have my HT rear surround there, and I can notice some vibrations in the desk and interference. I came across these MoPads, and am wondering if they are worth it, or should I just find a DIY solution as mentioned above.

The pads are also only 4" wide, and the 30s are 8" wide, meaning I would need 2 pairs, and would rather not drop $80 on foam...

If I can substitute them with a DIY solution, where can I buy appropriate foam? Or perhaps products that would be similar?

I use a pair of the Auralex Gramma units on my subs.. they do make a difference in sound quality..in my listening environment, it was almost essential... decoupling a sub is never really a bad idea. However, on mains, I doubt if they will improve things enough for you to notice, price vs performance.

Yea I have a Gramma on my subwoofer too, sounds like the monitor ones are less effective. Maybe I will just pick up a mousepad like the guy above mentioned, so theres no chances of vibrations (not sure if the Monitor 30 come with rubber feet).

I believe they do. If you look at the pictures on newegg it seems as if they come with a set of rubber pads.

They do. All my Monitor speakers (CS1, CS2, Monitor 40's) came with them....

I actually ended up using them on some Infinity Studio Monitor 185's & Infinity Primus 162's instead for the same reason.

Unless you have nothing else and have a center speaker on something like glass I dont see the need for them...still something I might buy sometime to test, but dont have spare cash like that lying around at this time

Ah good to hear, I guess the main benefit is the angled surface, I will need to find something to prob up a bit, but surely I can do this for less.

They actually angle the speakers down so unless they are higher than your ears they wont do much. My speakers (pictures below) are not angled at all and sound just fine. The speakers in the pictures (Infinity Primus 162's) are not the ones I am using currently (Infinity Studio Monitor 185's), but they sounded fine connected like that as well

I suggest building some DIY stands using some 2x4's and painting them black. You can make the stands as tall or short as you need and make sure the speakers fit or are angled just the way you want them.

With the Monitor 30's being rear ported I believe you will want to keep them a couple inches from the wall if possible

I do have these and they do help the sound on the bass sound better since the desk doesn't viberate. It basicly makes it sound like there is nothin underneath it since normaly where you place the speakers you will hear viberations from it. I use these for my computer speakers and they work great. I got them at Sweetwater while back.

They indeed do work, however you can DIY with some furniture pads at Walmart or Loews for much cheaper. Do they perform as well, probably not, do they help, sure.

Well you can just turn the MoPads around and they angle the other way! Ideally I would want mine tilted slightly up, I am a tall person and right now they are shooting at my shoulder.

Dustin, is there a noticeable difference? Also, do you have 1 pair for each speaker? I am worried the speakers might wobble with only half their base supported by the pad.

Damn, I didnt even think of that...

I use Mopads on my center speaker and on my powered bookshelves fro my computer desk and they do a great job of not only isolating the speaker from what it sits on, but the 4 degree angled inserts work great on either positiong yuor speaker upwards or downwards.

I have a rather large RPTV (Pioneer Elite Pro 620) and when the center just laid on top the sound was way over my head, by adding the Mopads, I could angle my speaker down 4, 8 or 12 degrees with the added inserts (8 worked best for me) and now the speaker is aimed directly at my head instead of over it, and the other benefit is bonus of the speaker not vibrating on the TV so by adding the Mopads the sound cleared up with no more vibrations and the sound is now coming from the TV instead of over it.

I also added Gramma Pads to my SVS and that alone did the greatest in reducing unwanted vibrations of my walls, pictures and huge bay window, so now the bass is tight and controlled.

Aurolux is the best, and although can be made with other less inferior products to achieve the same effect, with Mopads, they're cheap look professional and no time needs to be spent on building your own. Mopads can be bought for about 25.00/pair with the inserts at any Guitar Center.

Hmm I spent some time reading reviews, and people are all saying good things about them... UofAZ did you notice cleaner bass response with the pads? I will be running a 2.0 setup because of neighbors, but still want to be able to take advantage of the 50Hz extension to the fullest.

I might need to try guitar center for the pads, the lowest I saw online was $36 from Amazon...

i have the mopads (the bookshelf foam pads) for my jbl L820s (which are about 20lbs each) and i dont think they work very well

still can "feel" a bunch of vibrations in the desk...

wow - do you work for auralex?

how is bass "tight and controlled" simply by adding a decoupler to your sub? i find that highly suspect (especially since decoupling does *nothing* for curing room modes (peaks/nulls) like traditional bass trapping would do). how does decoupling tighten up the bass to that noticeable of an extent?


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In my particular case, my subs rest on a stage area under my projection screen. The stage was coupling to the side walls. The addition of the Grammas essentially decoupled the subs and in fact produced a noticable tightening of bass response under 50HZ. I then added bass traps to smooth the response. Due to the nature of the room, it was important that the dual subs stayed at the original location.

Well I decided to run down to Guitar Center and grab a pack of these MoPads. Let me say there is quite a noticeable difference in sound quality! No more distortion from my desk, the sound is more detailed, and I feel like the sound stage is larger.

I would definitely recommend these!

I also bought MoPads for my center channel. I'm using a single Monitor Audio R225 laid down horizontally. I also needed my speaker to be angled up slightly in order for the speaker to be aimed at the listener.

As an aside, in the package I got I had 4 MoPads and 4 inserts that allow you to adjust the speaker's angle including 0* angle. I'd say it's actually a great value at $35 considering you get four MoPads. I'm going to trim two to make them more compact and use them for my stand mounted rears.

Is this the kind of thing I'd want to use if I lived in an apartment? I imagine getting the sub up onto a pad like that would at least break up the vibration and sound wave conduction through the floor? I've got a Klipsch RW12d coming in tomorrow and I can already envision crying neighbors lol...

It will have no effect whatsover in that respect. Sub bass sound waves pass through all but the most solidly built floors, walls and ceilings with virtual impunity due to their wavelengths being 12 to 60 feet long, not because the sub is touching the floor. Think about it. The bass passes through walls and ceilings, and the sub isn't touching them. Floors are no different.