Speaker spike feet?

Obviously, if you look hard enough you can find somebody somewhere who doesn’t follow the pattern. Somebody who like rubber, somebody who likes Sorbothane, somebody who likes lead. These things happen. He’s an outlier. Isolation is important and effective even for cement slabs since the entire building is moving.

N80;

Or Journeyman Machinist 

How do the spikes sound?
could you tell a difference or “ so so”?

It was obvious with mine? 

Ps: Next set make out of a M4 tool steel hardened to 55-60 Rockwell & pint ground to 32 rms
lol

jeff

N80;

Take pics of your setup!
Ariel are nice speakers & Iron base is a new one for me?

jeff

jeff, I honestly can't say I noticed a big difference.

Right now, making this sort of subjective assessment is very hard. I'm one who agrees that a lot of things affect my ability to judge music quality from what mood I happen to be in to which model of leaf blower my neighbor is running outside my window. I also think it is very easy to internalize what I hear from others ("it will sound better with spikes") and to yield to my expectation of improved quality based on having taken the time to make these i.e. I've gone to the trouble to make them, surely it must sound better. And then I fight these expectations trying to be objective....and the end result is that I don't know.

I'm listening right now and they sound marvelous. Better than before? Probably. A revelation? No.

As for the OEM bases, they are rectangular channel steel, 4 pieces welded together and there is clearly something in them because they are heavy. I know they are OEM because Aerial sent me a schematic.

I am no machinist. You can tell that by looking closely at the picture I posted of them. I have a grinding wheel, a drill press and an angle grinder. All of them old. And no training. Any pretense at craftsmanship in my posts above was purely for humor.

geoffkait, I wasn't sure for a fact that they are rubber but they look and feel like firm black rubber. So I looked back at the schematic Micheal Kelly sent me and it does say rubber there.

N80;

trust your own hearing, not someone else's 

Honesty can be brutal at times.

What you driving your speakers with?

jeff

Madrigal Proceed HPA2. Transparent Super Bi-cable cables.

N80,

You got a sleeper there in the amp.
I had a old college buddy that had one & made his old Krell sound like a sissy in bass.

Transparent make good stuff too.

jeff

It all came to me by chance. Was not an audiophile before now. Still have a long way to go but fortunately have no desire whatsoever to pursue any sort of serious upgrades. No need for me to get on that treadmill.

I made the spikes because 1) I could and 2) it was cheap and 3) the speakers had them originally (lost in a move at some point presumably).

I might sharpen them up a bit though. One of them is quite firmly planted but the other slightly less so. Again, I'm not expecting to hear a difference. Just seeking to maximize whatever easy things I can.