Effects of different feet on floorstanders with a thickish rug


A concurrent thread asked for opinions on the effect of spikes and other foot treatments on floorstanding speakers with a hard, concrete underlaid floor -- what would the answer be with a moderately thick rug over plywood?  
128x128cheeg

Showing 2 responses by millercarbon

Exact same thing.

Yeah I know everyone thinks otherwise. Well sorry, they're wrong. Wrong about the pointy stuff needing to "ground" or whatever. It just doesn't work that way. Of course you have to experiment, actually try out a whole bunch of different things to know. Way easier to repeat whatever you heard than try and compare things that seem unlikely. Which is exactly what I have done. 

First time a guy told me to put a round thing under my cone I thought he was nuts. How's the cone gonna spike into the flooring? Its gonna float! Stupid idea. But I tried it. Sure enough, way better.

Of course it matters what you use. Everything matters. Nothing is so simple. But what you asked was how is carpet different than wood, or wood over concrete, or whatever. And the answer is- it isn't.