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Heavy Speakers with Spikes on a Concrete Floor

Looking through the current Mapleshade flyer, the flyer states that speakers sitting on a concrete floor will have boomy bass and treble that is muted.
Their suggestion is to buy their 4” thick Maple with 3” spikes platforms and place them under the speakers.

Now, forget for now the price of these platforms. Is their value to this claim?
If there is a value, I would think that instead of steel spikes, speaker manufactures would make a Maple speaker type footer. Wouldn’t that make more sense?

And secondly, how would I be able to place a 215 lb speaker with large spikes onto this platform?
ozzy

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avanti1960
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@ozzy 

There is no good reason to use any kind of maple or other block under your speakers on a concrete floor.  

Some people use them to help isolate the speaker from exciting a suspended floor- e.g. a wood floor.  

My system has always been set up in a finished basement, dense carpet and padding over concrete slab. 

All of my speakers are spiked through the carpet to the concrete.  

FYI a 205 lb speaker with four spikes will present a 51 lb load to each spike - nothing to worry about unless you use the speakers as pile drivers.  

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