Isolation for speakers on spikes


A friend recently gave me some Vibrapod isolation discs to put under my speakers, B&W 704. The effect was amazing, however I believe that by removing the spikes the speakers lost a lot of their quickness, and with some music they sound even a little muddy and dull. I tried resting a board on the pods, and the speakers with spikes on top of that, but that didn't work out. How can I get the best of both worlds--the great isolation benefits but also maintain the quickness and clarity that spikes deliver?
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I find with speakers you either couple or decouple. One is almost impossible to do. The other very easy. Are you wondering which? I use Audiopoints 3/8-16 1.5inch screwed into my Definition 1.5s. I cannot tell how much of a difference it made compared to Zucable spikes. Even called the Zu boys to let them know. COUPLE your new baby. It don't get much better than that, unless of course you can put them on the Sistrum Platforms. That is nirvana. You've been here before!! peace, warren :)
All those vibrations in your speakers: where do all those deleterious resonances go with your Vibpods? Those 'pods keep the very microphonous meanies and the like right in your speakers, where you don't want them. You want them to go to Mother Earth through the points. This has been beat to death here on the 'gon. Some are couplers, some decouplers, and yes; some mix the two. Go figure. Why do you think the Sistrum Platform worked so beautifully? Pure coupling--magnifying the points capabilities with the us of the platform acting as a resonant conduit.
I sold my Passion, but I had the Sistrum SP1 under it for years. Wonderful. Will never have an amp, cdp, anything, without sitting on a Sistrum SP1 or their points. Audiopoints are wonderful, but the Sistrum system takes it to another level...I have the Sistrum under my new baby...
Grant is right on that. Robert over at Starsound will do whatever it takes to get the system that is right for you. You have 30 days to play with it. No good? Back to Starsound. Can't beat that with a stick. Tvad, do you know if Exemplar/Denon has that rattling issue with their 3910?
Grant, "no they don't" presupposes that you know already. So why be verbose? lol..