[CAUT] Dollies and projection (was Hamburg leg bolt)

[Andrew Anderson]

>"uncouple" it from the floor and let the whole thing resonate.  The reason,
>then, that a spider compromises the sound isn't that the leg is off the
>floor, but that the leg is stuck in the spider leg plate and can't move.
>
>I don't know of any research directed at this issue, but it makes sense to
>me.
>
>For what it's worth,
>Ken Z.
I suspect that a spider soaks up energy even more than thin hotel 
carpet.  By wedging up the cantilevered leg cups you take a lot of 
elasticity out of the equation.  Legs sit freely in the spider cups, 
I doubt they vibrate less, just have more soaked up by the elastic steel.

Andrew Anderson