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Floorstanders over Suspended Hardwood-Help Please

I have a pair of Silverline Sonatas that weigh in at about 120 pounds each. When I lived in my previous home, I used a set of four points under each speaker over a thick carpet and an equally think pad. I recently moved and these speakers will now be in a room with suspended hardwood floors. There is a berber carpet over a portion of the room and under where the speakers will be placed. With their weight, the Silverlines will drive the points right through the berber and couple with the hardwood. Bad.

I need to find a solution and have thought of three possibilities:
1) Find a very thick pad to place under the berber and use the points like before.
2) Use discs under the points directly atop the berber. Stable?
3) Get some 1-2” slabs of marble, using iso-pads between the marble and the carpet and points/discs between the speakers and the marble.

I have tried using slabs under other floorstanders over carpet and always found them to be less than rock solid in the vertical plane.

Do any of these approaches seem best, or are there others to consider. Please keep in mind that I do NOT want to spend several hundred dollars on platforms such as Sistrum, etc.
motdathird

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motdathird OP
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Thanks, AB, but I wonder how these coasters are different from any other disc. I could be wrong because I haven't tried this yet but I would think that points setting in this kind of coaster over the berber would result in a speaker that was no too solid. I mean they would tend to rock even a little from the speaker vibration.

Right now I have the speakers on the berber using threaded bolts with small rubber cups over the heads. They sit solid but I am getting a bit too much bass thump from that floor.
motdathird OP
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I am not sure that I could find a ceramic tile to fit under all of these speakers. Doubling or tripling up on the tiles would seem to add yet another stability issue. I can see where this might work well if the speaker's footprint would fit on one tile.

BTW, I am getting VERY good soundstaging in terms of depth and height. Also excellent imaging and staging BETWEEEN the speakers. But, I am not getting much outside the speakers. Will getting them up on points help with htis or is it more matter of distance between the speakers or toe-in? They did much better in my other house. Maybe it is the room.
motdathird OP
77 posts
 
My floors are 1/2" X 2" oak strips over 3/4" plywood, over joists, over a crawl space. Stehno's final comment might be best if living with floor dimples can be tolerated. Maybe my definition of suspended was misplaced.

I have a set of eight stainless steel Soler Points that are threaded to screw into the speakers.
motdathird OP
77 posts
 
My flooring is actually 3/4" not 1/2" oak (my typo) and is t-and-g blind nailed over 3/4 ply. I'm still sure that points will leave an impression, but it is impervious to keys! :-)

Believe that I will give the final Stehno suggestion a try and maybe consider some variation of the Hdm/Socrates approach if that doesn't pass the wifely test.
motdathird OP
77 posts
 
Yeah, well I likely initiated your confusion by somewhat carelessly referring to my situation as suspended, walker of the swamp. Not actually suspended in the real sense of the definition.

Thanks to all that have responded. I think I will try Bryhifi's solution first. If that works, I'll be done for cheap, as I like things!
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