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Speaker spikes-worse sound-what gives?

I recently bought a pair of Silverline Sonata lls and set them up in my family room (20x20. After some weeks of finding good positioning, I screwed in the spiked feet that came with them only to find a very different and somewhat worse sound. The base not only tightened but really became thin although the top end opened up a bit. The live sounding D. Krall now sounds like she is coming out of a box. The room is heavily carpeted wall to wall. The rear wall has cedar planking on it. The one wall that has windows is covered with heavy drapes and honeycomb shades.

I know the easy answer is to take them out, but I thought that spiked feet always improved the sound.

What gives?

rest of system is EAD Ovation, Aragon 8008 amp, Moon Nova CDP. (System is a little bright but not harsh. Tried using Red Dawn ICs and speaker cable but made it too bright, harsh and analytical. Before the spikes)
jeffg

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lacee
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Also, interesting is that the sound is different depending on the spikes you use.

My speakers are on a carpeted concrete basement floor.
The original spikes were replaced with updated ones from the manufacturer, and they did make for an improvement.

But I felt like experimenting some more, so I used some BDR cones in place of the spikes, and things improved again.

Then I tilted the speaker foward slightly by placing some thin ceramic tiles under the rear two cones of each speaker.

Now for the first time in over two years of trial, error and frustration,am I getting the snapped into focus I have read about with my speakers.
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