Spikes on tower speakers


This is my first post here, just getting involved in the earlier stages of serious stuff. I recently bought a pair of Piega p4L MKll speakers. They sound great, at least according to my perhaps unsophisticated ears.

My question/problem: The speakers have spikes on them that cannot be removed because the previous owner glued them to the base. Becaue of the spikes, the speakers are very unstable on the carpet in my listening room. I need something that the spikes will go into so that the speaker towers will be more stable. So far, neither plywood nor small metal speaker spike pads have worked. Am now considering carbon speaker spike pads and hockey pucks to get the spikes into and then a bigger base, such as wood or even granite/marble.

I would greatly appreciate any suggestions that would solve this problem.

phil59

Showing 5 responses by michaellent

My understanding is that you do not want have spike/fixed connection between the floor and your speakers. That’s why they make so many of those expensive speaker “pods”(Townsend et al), to separate the speaker from the floor.

Bent

@clearthinker ​​​​@mijostyn are misled.
 @jtcf and @vinylvalet  have the correct understanding.  If the speakers are connected to the floor, then the vibrations are passed out of the speakers through the spike, and then turn into the floor, then back into the spike and back into the speaker. That is real distortion.
Townshend products, cones, pucks, et al, break the floor, connection from the speakers. These products cost a s* load of money and receive the kudos they do, because they work. I don’t see anybody advertising spikes,  by themselves, as a great solution. No one is selling spikes for $2k. If they worked, speaker manufactures would charge for them.  Using spikes on a cutting board would be better than setting them on the floor. 
I have no dog in this fight. No relationship to any of these manufacturers. I use spikes on a wood support which is spiked to as well. Double spiking if you would, but my speakers are not connected to the floor directly with spikes.

Bent

My sound studio IS in the basement on a concrete slab. I noticed MASSIVE improvement after separating the speaker from the slab the way I described doing it.  Magic?

Bent

 

@mijostyn 

I don’t get it. It’s not amplitude volume? Why would changing the volume response change the sound? Please explain further.
ml

ZU speakers are known to have a bizarre impedance curve that works in real life. Might this have something to do with what I like with ZU and disengagement with the floor?

ml