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Best vibration isolation for speakers on carpet?

Hi All,

 

So I am awaiting my new Revel Performa3 208's and I'm tired of the normal spikes that come with speakers. No matter what I do I can never seem to get them all level. My carpet is medium to a bit on the thicker side. Any help on carpet spikes or any other ideas on how to isolate the speaks but also so they'll finally be balanced? Granted it's not like any of my towers have ever been in danger of tipping over, but I've never been able to get them all level. 

 

My dealer said at 80lbs the Revel's should be fine on carpet without spikes but I want to get this right from the get go? Any help/advice is greatly appreciated-thank you!

kingbr

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I concur with a number of folks on here but my formula is a little different. I use IsoAcoustics Gaia footers under my speakers but instead of the carpet spikes, which are a pain to move the speakers around to tweak positioning, or a butcher block which I find raises the speaker height too much after combining with IsoAcoustics, I put the speakers with IsoAcoustics footers on 16x20x3/4” marble pastry boards from Sur La Table (I believe Amazon and World Market may have cheaper but perhaps lower quality alternatives). This adds additional mass while keeping it low profile, and offers additional decoupling with the use of the footers. 

https://isoacoustics.com/home-audio-isolation-products/gaia-series/gaia-iii/

https://www.surlatable.com/white-marble-pastry-board-1634-x-2034/PRO-535591.html

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