Spikes-Marble-Carpet-Wood Floors


My Snell CVs are about 100 lbs each. My hardwood floors are covered with a wool rug and pad. Currently I am using a set of aluminum Tiptoes I have had for about 20+ years.

The Tiptoes are not threaded they just sit under the speakers. I am not sure they are really coupled to the floor that well. They are going thru the rug and pad but is that enough?
I do have two marble slabs that could go under the speakers.

Should I place the marble under the rug? or on top of the rug? I am also wondering about gluing the Tiptoes to the bottoms of the speakers for a better connection.
Or should I just make some threaded DIY spikes and forget the Tiptoes?
blueskiespbd

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hmmmm. not much support for the granite idea. My TT is on acrylic spikes sitting on marble. I wonder if I should sandwich wood on top of that now?
I will now see if I can turn my wool rug to free up wood floorspace. then I can just spike the towers into the wood.
The floors are heart pine and 2 inches thick tounge and groove. Since the house was built in 1841 that wood must be from virgin timber 200 yrs old.
As for the
TT I am working on reinforcing and cross bracing the lead filled steel legs with threaded steel rods.
hmmm. the spikes I have are 2 inch aluminum cones made by Tiptoes. How much difference could there be if I change to heavy expensive brass spikes?

Since the speakers are 100 lbs each I would think that the psi at the tip is very high.