This looks nice!
Grew up in a house with radiators like this. Brings back memories.
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I threw a few bucks in the direction of a chap called Herbie. You never know! Let’s see. UPS say Monday delivery, which Monday I’ll find out later.
Nice room!
If I had more room to get them away from the front wall I would get a set of Xtremes or Xstatics. My X5’s work good just 40" or so off the front wall but Danny says 5 feet or more is what he likes to see.
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It turns out that the slider bits from Herbie are the same as the ones I got off Amazon for pennies. I think in 30 minutes I could pretty much reproduce Herbie’s sliders for 10% of what I paid for them. they are vastly overpriced.
Do you have the Amazon link?
Herbies are a bit bigger, but they seem to be made of the same stuff.
Herbies also appear to scratch rather easily.
I’ve bought a few other bits and will make some more, and I need some padding under my tumble dryer so the rubber stuff will come in useful.
Herbies appear to use a really cheap moulded rubber. For a few dollars more I would use 5mm sorbothane sheet.
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These are more Herbie size. There are dozens of products using this sliding material, all around $10 for a dozen or more units.
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I doubt that if Herbie‘s claim is correct that he used an exclusive BASF product/material provided for him.
These are the gliders I put under my Sopra 2:
A very different animal from the sliders you’re using.
I do however have a set of Gaia for the Sopra, but have been too lazy to install.
I waited1.5 years to install my Gaia’s. Do it, It’s worth the time.
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I bought the Herbie’s on jazznts recommendation, they charge a load to ship to the UK, I sent about $170 in total for 8 of them, and then I had to pay an extra $55 customs fee. So well over $200 and I will be replicating tomorrow morning for about $35 and have plenty of rubber mat to put under the tumble dryer.
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I personally use those:
under the main speakers (although I also have Gaia I‘s for them) and I use Gaia II under the Sub.
And I use some similar Herbie‘s under the rack.
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It looks like you live in a timber house or a log cabin. It looks fantastic!
I just can’t get enough of this space, it’s to die for, so so jealous! The system as well of course is fantastic.
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I am going to have to get over my trust issues. The one and only person I trust to help me lay them down and remove the spikes broke his leg very badly and is out of commission for a while. I am gonna have to either wait or take a leap of faith…not easy for me.
It was a two person job for me. The Wilson’s are very heavy. To complicate the install, I have the dedicated carpet spikes. You need to be exact about location on carpets. The additional benefit was to give the speakers a very slight tilt forward by tuning the thread height.
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With carpet the Gaia II carpet spikes are essential sonically and for stability’s sake.
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