Hello Miller, boing boing, you are still wrong.
Heretobuy. Your are saved from suffering bad SQ from Miller's heresy not by your own wisdom but by shortage of funds. Whatever! More than one way to save yourself!
Most of you have misunderstood OP's question. He asks: if you have subwoofer(s) does this mean you don't have to spike your main speakers because you don't need them to produce articulate low bass.
OP misunderstands the reason for spiking. It is to prevent the whole speaker moving around and adding that movement to the signal driven movement of the cones etc. We need to listen to the signal and not the extraneous movement that smears the sound and the soundstage, across the whole frequency range, not just the bass. Remember, even if you add subwoofer(s) your main speakers are still reproducing low frequencies as before, unless you mess with their electronics.
PMM. If you bolt (or spike) your speakers to a concrete floor laid on the ground with a good rigid foundation, the vibration passed into the speakers is the vibration of the mass of planet Earth. That's quite a lot of mass to move around! There again, Red Indians used to put their ear to the ground and heard riders and horses miles away. At least they did in movies.
Heretobuy. Your are saved from suffering bad SQ from Miller's heresy not by your own wisdom but by shortage of funds. Whatever! More than one way to save yourself!
Most of you have misunderstood OP's question. He asks: if you have subwoofer(s) does this mean you don't have to spike your main speakers because you don't need them to produce articulate low bass.
OP misunderstands the reason for spiking. It is to prevent the whole speaker moving around and adding that movement to the signal driven movement of the cones etc. We need to listen to the signal and not the extraneous movement that smears the sound and the soundstage, across the whole frequency range, not just the bass. Remember, even if you add subwoofer(s) your main speakers are still reproducing low frequencies as before, unless you mess with their electronics.
PMM. If you bolt (or spike) your speakers to a concrete floor laid on the ground with a good rigid foundation, the vibration passed into the speakers is the vibration of the mass of planet Earth. That's quite a lot of mass to move around! There again, Red Indians used to put their ear to the ground and heard riders and horses miles away. At least they did in movies.