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Spikes or rubber feet.

I've got a nice pair of tower speakers that are new to me. They weigh 65 pounds each. They sit on hardwood floors. Currently they have hard rubber feet that screw into the bases. They also came with spikes. Spikes are a no-go for the hardwood floors but the spikes also come with metal disks that sit on the floor and that spikes sit on. There is a cone shaped dimple in the disk that the spike fits into.

Is there likely to be any appreciable benefit to the spikes sitting on disks compared to the hard rubber feet? They are obviously easier to move around with the rubber feet.


n80

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cd318
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@n80,

Rubber decouples, spikes couple.

Accelerometer readings indicate that there is far less vibration/resonance through the baffle if the speaker is decoupled.

It’s also possible that a loudspeaker may sound 'better balanced' despite greater baffle resonances but for greater resolution I’d prefer to use rubber feet to decouple.

I don’t think it’s anything to get too concerned about when it comes to well designed loudspeakers. Any decent designer would no doubt have worked very hard to reduce cabinet resonances to a minimum beforehand.
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