To Couple or Decouple?


I've recently purchased a pair of Acoustic Zen Crescendos. I now have them positioned in the room, and I am ready to add the spikes. The floor in my room is a suspended wood type. After researching whether or not to spike speakers or decouple them on a suspended wood floor, the majority seems to recommend not spiking them directly to the wood floor, but decoupling them. So here are my questions:
1). Do I couple or decouple?
2). Anyone use the Boston Audio Tuneblocks S under your spikes? How do you like them?
3). Any recommendations of other decoupling devices to use?
Thanks for you input!
louisl

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I am a follower of the Anti Spike Movement, due to having tortured wood floors for years and then discovering that relatively inexpensive Vibrapods placed under my speakers make them sound better, in my room using my ears. Or, you could simply get ears and a room like mine, but maybe that's not so simple.
Vibrapods (or things like them) are MUCH less expensive than what I consider to be over-machined accessory porn (!) stuff like Stillpoints, and they accomplish the same thing...turning vibration into heat or at least decoupling direct speaker vibration from a floor. I'm waiting for magnetic levitation pods for speakers...should cost as much as my car.