First, I must say that the "upgrade" to hardwood floors from carpeting in the listening room is a great move and something I wish I had done sooner. The improvement in the overall sound plus better bass response was fantastic. I think the addition of the wood flooring makes the floor much stiffer and this helps the entire room out tremendously. I machined my own brass discs to put under the spikes on my speakers. My speakers came with spikes. Spikes firm up the imaging, for sure. I listened to a pair of Sonus Faber speakers many years ago at a HiFi Buys in Atlanta. They were sitting on 4 inch thick stone slabs. The stones were an option. I think they helped the speakers out a lot. So consider maybe getting some thick stone slabs to put under your speakers. Still include spikes on your speakers to sink to the stone slabs.
hardwood floors, area rugs, and spiked feet
We're putting in solid oak hardwood floors and have purchased decent quality oriental area rugs, one of which is going into my listening space to cover the flooring between the listening location and the speakers. The rug will extend under the speakers. So the question is, what to do to stabilize the speakers on top of the rug without the spikes damaging the flooring underneath. The carpet is pretty thick and dense; it won't do just to remove the spikes and depend on the speaker feet.
I need a method to somewhat blunt the spikes but still enable them to get down into the backing of the rug. It won't do to just round over the spikes; the weight of the speakers will still damage the flooring. I'm thinking there's got to be some sort of a combination of a disc and shallow spike setup. I looked in several catalogs but came up empty.
Surely one of you folks has run into this problem in the past?
I need a method to somewhat blunt the spikes but still enable them to get down into the backing of the rug. It won't do to just round over the spikes; the weight of the speakers will still damage the flooring. I'm thinking there's got to be some sort of a combination of a disc and shallow spike setup. I looked in several catalogs but came up empty.
Surely one of you folks has run into this problem in the past?
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