Those stupid little feet are expensive too, I know I paid for 12 of them. 1 option that comes to mind is to raise the subwoofer completely off the floor. Play with positioning it on top of something about 1 or 2 feet above the floor. I know this sounds crazy but sometimes you need to do weird things to get what you want. Its no weirder than a multi speaker subwoofer tower that has 2, 3 or 4 woofers in it. All the upper units are raised well off the floor. Just trying to think a bit out-side the box for you.
I used to be perfectly fine with using headphones, until I got my surround sound system set up, and it makes all my headphones sound like shit, you just can’t fit two 12" body shaking subs into a pair headphones.
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Ya they are $50 per sub, but if they work as well as a lot of you tubers say they do, it’s worth it to me.
I can agree with that lol, ever since I got my subs it has been something you can’t recreate in a headphone lol
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Amen to that.
Though i have always known this. 
There ain’t single headphone that gives sub vibes like good subs do.
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Only one that’s gotten close is the modded th900mk2, but even then, not really the same thing
C’mon. Headphones cannot give prostate shaking vibes. Ever.
Not same at any level. 
On the actual subject.
Wonder do those “subwoofer isolators platforms” work? They like foam type bottom and hard MDF plate on top. Do they actually stop or remove vibes?
Since the subs enclosures i got do not actually shake or vibrate so they should not resonate the floor. Huge port is near the ground but would think the actual sound makes things shake.
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Or just wear open backs with a sub lol, that works too
Sound isolation is the whole point of this thread 
speakers making noise isn’t my problem.
My assumption is that the work like an engine mount on a car probably a very flexible piece of rubber to absorb vibration. A lot of people say it’s the subs physically vibrating the floor and walls that bothers people and when you isolate them that goes away because it’s not longer directly transferring energy into the floor.
It would just attempt to decouple the sub from the floor, but you should also treat your room with bass traps in corners and also play around and see what your resonant frequency is
Hard for me to do that since my “home theater” is also my kitchen and dining room, and I live with a woman. Just hanging the side surrounds was a big battle for me, let alone treating the room and making it into an anechoic chamber.
Are you able to get the sub away from walls and corners? That could prevent coupling with the walls
Also using the sub in nearfield (very very close to the listening position) could make it so you don’t have to turn it up as much
Remember the Howard Stern movie?
That lady would agree with you!
Ok got the feet in and installed, really high quality product they raised my subs about an inch higher off the floor and they are very jiggly now. And far as the sound goes I’m not sure yet because my girlfriend is playing red dead redemption 2, So far from what I can tell from the game seems to be a bit more bass and is some what tighter more like a sealed sub, mine are slot ported so I don’t know how true that really is, I’ll do a update tomorrow when I can watch Mad Max and shatter my windows.
Ok after having these isolation feet for a few days and watching mad Max Fury road at loud levels, I’d say these are a must for any audiophile living in a apartment. They really do stop vibration from transmitting into the floor and walls. I played the movie a loud volume level during the drumming sequence and when’t into my garage below my system and I could faintly hear the sound it was, mostly the highs and mids I was hearing, these feet combined with wall treatments would probably allow you to play you subs as loud as you wanted too.
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Do the subs themselves sound different?
Yes, they make them sound more punchy and obviously get rid of the room shaking vibration, which can be seen as a downside for some.
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