Speaker shock absorbers


From time to time people have posted different methods for mechanically decoupling their speakers from the floor to reduce vibration. Some of these have involved using a ply system of rubber strips and wood strips, which seems reasonable to me. I have looked for suitable sized sections of rubber or even for large sheets to cut up but have been unsuccessful. To those who have used that method -where did you find the material and what thickness of rubber and wood did you use for each layer - finally how many layers did you end up using?
musicnoise

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As to weight of the speakers - they are 90 lbs each. The vibration is not bad - the speaker cabinet does not noticably vibrate. But, at 105 db peaks with my feet on the carpeted wooden floor, sitting 6 feet away, I can feel the base. It seems to me that completely eliminating any transmission along the floor would be ideal. I cannot imagine that this would not occur in even the heaviest of speakers without decoupling. The garage rubber pads sound like just the ticket - I'll check out home depot - the hocky pucks are also an interesting idea.
newbee - I agree with that statement. It appears that you are in sync with the effect that I was trying to control. It had occurred to me that some of what I was feeling was due to the sound wave without interaction with the floor. I do not necessarily want to eliminate that effect. My only goal is to get rid of any transmission that is not airborne so to speak. As to sound traps in the room, I have several in place, the goal of which was to reduce the liveliness of the room which, without the sound traps ends up reinforcing the high frequencies - those have worked well for that purpose.
Halcro - I am well aware of spikes and have used them - that was not my question - your answer is non-responsive to my question and, hence both irrelevant and of without value to me. My question was simply where people who had used the method that I described found their materials. If I cared about what someone thought of my proposed method I would have asked a different question.