Not the subwoofer, the main speakers. Or rather, the main speakers were spiked before I got the subwoofer. If it's true that they're two different things then that's the answer to the question.
Does a Subwoofer Make Spiking Redundant?
I just added a REL T5/x to my system, and a question rises up from the depths of my ignorance: Does a subwoofer do the thing spiking speakers is supposed to do? Does a subwoofer make spikes redundant, or do they work at cross-purposes? If it's relevant, I've got the spikes on Herbie's Audio Lab puckies, on a (thinly) carpeted floor.
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I looked at those Townshend Podiums. You must understand that those things go for about what I could afford to pay for a speaker. Of course, if you're playing a $299 copy of
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida through an $8,000 speaker, it's perfectly proportional. |
When I put spikes under my speakers I could definitely hear a marked difference. If a blindfolded person could not hear the difference then I think it would be more a matter of The Emperor's Cloth Ears. The thing was, I wasn't really sure at the time that the difference was an improvement. Getting the spikes in the puckies I was putting the tips of the spikes into was such a nuisance, me working alone and all, I didn't want to go through the trouble of removing the spikes only to find I liked it better spiked and have to do it again. I might give it a try, but I wouldn't want to do it before the subwoofer burned in. I'm not the sort of person who runs his gear hour after hour to get it burned in - I live in an apartment. (In fact, when I watched a move - Many Saints of Newark, as it happened - the movie soundtrack bass was so thumpy that I might have to turn the subwoofer off when watching moves.) So I will let the subwoofer to burn in the course of nature. I did the same thing with my front speakers - at first I was a bit underwhelmed, but a month or so afterward I started to become aware of how much better they sounded. |