Alternative to Speaker Spikes for Wood Floors

[Alex_UK]

Hi Alex
How much you pay for it if you don't mind me asking as it's one of my jobs i have to get done this year, Engineered flooring in the living room.What type of underlay did they use?

Not sure what the cost of the wood was exactly, as I never asked for a breakdown, but I reckon it worked out somewhere around £85 a square metre (which would fit in roughly with the cheapest I could find it online) - unfortunately walnut is a lot more expensive than oak, but it was what we had our hearts set on because of the colours and grain structure.

The underlay was some sort of white foam stuff with a silver thermal layer on the bottom - sorry, I didn't get too excited about it!

[Welder]

What! Not excited about hardwood flooring underlay! Good god man, have you no sense of adventure and fun in life.

(I would have been there with a laser making sure they got the stuff level and took it right up to the walls below skirting point )

[CageyH]

I'm looking for some effective, but cheap. spike cups to see if decoupling my speakers from the floor slightly will help.
I have stand mounted Cyrus CLS70 on a suspended wooden floor, and I was looking at the Transfi Isolation damping discs.
Has anybody used these? Any feedback? ISOLATION-DAMPING-DISCS-SPIKE-CONE-FEET-PROTECTORS

[Spectral Morn]

I'm looking for some effective, but cheap. spike cups to see if decoupling my speakers from the floor slightly will help.
I have stand mounted Cyrus CLS70 on a suspended wooden floor, and I was looking at the Transfi Isolation damping discs.
Has anybody used these? Any feedback? ISOLATION-DAMPING-DISCS-SPIKE-CONE-FEET-PROTECTORS

What issues are you having?


Regards Neil

[CageyH]

I have had my system set up on the suspended floor for 5 years now, and much prefer the headphone sound. It's almost like the soundstage is muddled in comparison.
I am not sure if I am missing something or not, so I need a way to test the interface of the stand directly on the floor to see if the sound improves.
Some sorbothane sheet may do the trick, but the spike shoes from Cyrus are tiny, so they will probably overload sorbothane?

[istari_knight]

Personally, I've always found spiked stands on suspended wooden floors to completely kill the sound... Are your's removable ? Certainly worth a try if so.

[CageyH]

Yes. I can remove the spikes. I'll try it over the weekend.
If that works, any suggestion on what I can mount my Cyrus Tripod stands on?
They look like these:

[sjs]

I used atacama feet and they helped a lot, then I got a granite slab with vibrapods between the speakers and granite and that was a massive improvement.
Seems the less you can excite the wooden floor the better.

[CageyH]

I was thinking of Blue Horizon spike shoes, or a couple of sets of superspikes, but I am not sure that would help?

[istari_knight]

Ah, I see your problem ! Spike shoes on granite plinths maybe ?

Something like these: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hi-Fi-pair...-/261475871737

Would be cheaper from your local stonemasons.