On a wooden floor, good old original floorboards, is it better to use speaker stands with spikes on ‘cups’ or whatever you might refer to them as, none at all, or some kind of rubber circular foot things?
On a wooden floor, good old original floorboards, is it better to use speaker stands with spikes on ‘cups’ or whatever you might refer to them as, none at all, or some kind of rubber circular foot things?
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Probably. But you can never be sure. I e seen rubber feet working better.
There is no 100% right answer
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I use SuperSpikes. Beats the pants off everything else I tried. YMMV of course.
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If you have a suspended wooden floor, then spikes are a bad idea, especially under speakers, as they couple the gear to a moving floor. If you have a concrete floor, and don’t want to damage the wood, then any old coins under the spikes will do, or indeed some spike shoes.
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I favour massive sharp spikes directly into the floorboards (though there is carpet hiding the inevitable gouge they make).
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I think that hard and fast rules are not applicable, but have the view that very large heavy speakers do not benefit much, if at all from the whole consideration. So it is suck it and see.
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B&W DM607 s2
Chord Shawline X speaker cable
Klotz ic’s
I have Tannoy Berkeleys, each weighing over 40kg with a large footprint. Placing them on hardwood plinths which have spikes (SuperSpikes in my case) makes a massive difference. Sound gained more focus and is tightened up. This directly on suspended wooden floors (with probably 2/3 feet gap to the foundations.
Similar gains from standmount speakers on heavy Target stands when I added spikes.
Current: [P20] Roon/Tidal > Custom PC> Chevron Paradox NDF16 > Phast Pre > Neuro. 686 > Tannoy Berkley (RFC tweaks)
Mana Acoustics Racks / Bright Star IsoNodes Decoupling >> Allo DigiOne Player >> Pedja Rogic's Audial Model S DAC + Pioneer PL-71 turntable / Vista Audio phono-1 mk II / Denon PCL-5 headshell / Reson Reca >> LFD DLS >> LFD PA2M (SE) >> Royd RR3s.