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How do you feel about a wheeled dolly permanently under large floorstanding speakers?

I'm building a new room that will be home to the system I'm putting together. I looking at several floor standing speakers that aren't huge by audiophile standards, but too heavy to just grab and move easily, 60-80 lbs each. The room will be multi-use, so one option I'm considering is to move the speakers when required. They would stay in the best position for my solo listening chair, but when we have a group over and are using the game table or pool table, move them toward the wall and turn them for good sound to the overall room. It would also help me a great deal with the WAF for the room. I've been considering the wisdom of putting them on a solid MDF platform, the size of the speaker footprint, with 3 or 4 castors mounted beneath. Probably make a wood skirt to hide the wheels. Then I could roll them off the rug onto the vinyl floor and over to the wall or wherever makes the most sense. I will keep the movement relatively small so I can keep speaker cables only as long as necessary to reach the primary listening position. Do any of you have direct experience with a similar setup and its impact on sound quality?

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spatialking
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Further thoughts ... Use spikes and when you need to roll them, "walk them" one corner at a time onto a mobile platform to roll.
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spatialking
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I would use spikes if you have carpet and when you do want to move them, you can "walk them" by picking up three corners and pivoting around the fourth corner.   80 lbs is about what my speakers weigh and that works perfectly fine for me.   The thing is that the cabinets on full range speakers move a greater distance than the tweeter dome moves, so the sound is blurred significantly.   Putting them on wheels will only make things a lot worse.    If you don't have carpet, you can use a number of items to put under the spikes to protect a wood floor or use feet especially designed for sensitive flooring.   Do check out IsoAccoustics feet, the concept is sound and they are the only audio company of which I am aware that went to a NRTL to verify their claims - that is impressive in itself.  I'm using spikes on carpet which is over concrete embedded 6 inches in the earth , so I am not totally convinced those super feet would help my speakers.   Maybe?
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