Hi, is it possible to unscrew the feet of the K41 without opening the case ?
Short answer… NO
The feet were designed for the product, best way if you wish to use alternate footers is to position underneath without attaching.
Would there be any benefit to changing/upgrading the footers on the K40? Thank you!
If you have the K41, the isolation footers are well-designed and are made with the product’s weight and use in mind.
Perhaps others can chime in on the use of alternative footers; it isn’t something I have spent time on.
If you have a K40, then yes, the footers were part of the K40-K41 Upgrade.
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I can highly recommend Stack Audio AUVA isolation footers, they made a very noticeable improvement on my K50.
Which height have the footers of the K41 ?
Thanks, and how high are the feet ?
Feet are 30mm, from shelf to base of unit 
Which is a touch higher than the Stack Audio AUVA footers.
I tried adding them to my K41 and no dice….
I’d have to have them under the K41 feet themselves and that’s a no go, my Quadraspire rack shelf isn’t high enough.
Annoying…. So I’ll just have to leave them in stock form.
Can you use them under the K41 rather than under the feet? or is there not enough gap?
Maybe check with Stack to see if there is something that can be used underneath to make them taller.
Not sure if the Soundeck feet can still be purchased but I found these to work well under my Stillpoints as they seem to eliminate a slight coloration contributed by my Quadraspire rack. They were affordable could be used as a spacer to add some height to footers.
Hi Mark,
No, there’s about a 1mm gap from the AUVA to the bottom of the K41 chassis.
If I use them under the K41 feet, there’s not enough room to fit the K41 in my shelf, it’ll hit the top shelf.
Cheers,
I’ll check them out, I’ve been looking at similar disks from HRS as a fix.
But they all seem to have a ball device attached, and prob. too high as well.
I may admit defeat and just get some StillPoint Ultra SS, as they are exactly what I need hight wise anyway.
Perhaps superior sound wise as well.
I had a look at the review and their website.
The area looks spot on size wise, 50 or 70mm will fit the stack AUVA EQ footers well.
I just can’t find the height of them, they would need to be at least 10mm , preferable 12mm or more.
Otherwise it would still be short under the K41.
I have an updated K50. I understand that the replaced feet were specifically designed for the job.
I don’t understand why I need to replace them. Are they were faulty. I don’t believe mine are faulty. If they are, how do I tell?
What is the purpose of these feet. Do they fix a fault in my K50?
All very bewildering!
I’m guessing these new feet some are using are expensive?
Designs tend to have constraints put on them. Typically there is a budget allocated so the design has to fit within that budget. Thus what we might end up with are the best feet that can be produced for that budget. As such, there could potentially be feet available on the market that exceed the performance of the stock feet because a more care was lavished on them.
I believe the same feet are used across all the K series. If so, the budget allocated to the feet would have to make sense even at the price K21’s price point. Thus the design needs to accommodate that constraint.
Vibration can degrade sound quality even with components like servers. Better feet help to isolate while also draining energy from the component itself.
I have Stillpoints under every one of my components. They make the most profound improvements under speakers. The difference can be jaw-dropping. Once the speakers are taken care of, isolating each component will bring additional benefits. What one often hears is akin to dialing in the fine focus on a microscope.
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My speakers, Verity Audio, come with a special ant-vibration platform on which the speakers stand.
My previous speakers, Martin Logan, came with spikes which made them sound worse compared to nothing at all untill I got some anti-vibrational feet.
My assumption was Antipodes gear didn’t need all this messing about compared to my experience with ML and besides, they’re electronics rather than mechanical devices.
A local dealer swears by anti-vibrational blocks that you put on top of electronics but I and every customer at the demo couldn’t hear any difference. They were extremely expensive too.
Assumptions tend to be a poor guide in this hobby. Even in my case where I assume that an Antipodes server will benefit. In each case, it’s always best to set aside assumptions and do a fair assessment using one’s own ears in their own system.
I am guessing that you are referring to HRS damping plates. I have two of these, both were purchased used. The improvements are more subtle than what I’ve heard from Stillpoints footers. Also they are very sensitive to placement. On my amp, I heard no improvement unless the plate sat exactly centered front to back. But once there, the improvement was like getting 10% more benefit from what the Stillpoints beneath the amp bring. It was one of those improvements where losses could be heard when I removed it, enough so that I wanted to keep it.
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They were HRS. Glad they worked out for you
Mixed results for me with HRS damping plates, or even their Nimbus assemblies, but my best results by far, have been on my various mains conditioning devices. Usage on those particular devices showed clear & quite marked improvements on sound quality. However, one thing I will say, is that some of my earlier nimbus assemblies (or components of such) have experienced quite significant hardening of the rubberised material over time. How much that’s affected sound quality over the period involved is hard to quantify, but checking the difference isn’t an experiment I’d personally wish to finance (I’d also stay these were also bought from official U.K distributors, of which their are very few)…