I have found just the opposite to be true when speakers are placed directly on a suspended wood floor without any rug or carpet in between the spike and the wood flooring. Well designed pucks do a great job of preventing vibrations inherent in the speaker cabinet from being passed through to a suspended wood floor, which in turn lessens the extent to which the floor vibrates and muddles the sound in the listening room. I use Sound Anchors Conecoasters, which markedly improved the tightness and tunefulness of my bass reproduction as compared to the sound before their installation.
Sonic inpact of spike/floor protectors
Just wondering:
We all know about the sonic benefits of using spikes under our speakers. But doesn't putting those little puck-like floor protectors between the spikes and the floor negate the benefits of using the spikes? Since the idea behind the spikes is to mechanically ground the speakers by concentrating the contact point of the speaker/floor interface, it seems to me that by using the floor protectors we are defeating the benefits. Why not skip the spikes altogether, if damaging the floor is out of the question? What am I missing here? Thoughts please.
We all know about the sonic benefits of using spikes under our speakers. But doesn't putting those little puck-like floor protectors between the spikes and the floor negate the benefits of using the spikes? Since the idea behind the spikes is to mechanically ground the speakers by concentrating the contact point of the speaker/floor interface, it seems to me that by using the floor protectors we are defeating the benefits. Why not skip the spikes altogether, if damaging the floor is out of the question? What am I missing here? Thoughts please.