Higher frquencies emitted by the tweeter have extremely short wavelengths.The inertial effects of the mid-bass and bass drivers tend to rock the speaker back and forth microscopically on a less than stable flooring surface thus having the effect of nulling, smearing or adding to the tweeter output.PROPERLY ADJUSTED spiking ensures a very stable reference platform from which the drivers can operate most accurately, dynamically and efficiently.
In addition, there is a smaller but useful benefit of allowing some excess cabinet resonance energy to be transfered to the large mass sink of the floor rather than having to dissipate itself within the loudspeaker enclosure and its exterior baffles/walls.
The typical effects heard will be crisper and better defined attack and note shapings, punchier dynamics, improved focus and stage size,improved resolution of fine details, articulation & separation of instruments and a tauter & more tuneful bass.... however...
... some will hear the effects as having less "romance", warmth and "bloom" and sometimes will be observed as being harder and more revealing of problems elsewhere in the system.
Best,
Ken
In addition, there is a smaller but useful benefit of allowing some excess cabinet resonance energy to be transfered to the large mass sink of the floor rather than having to dissipate itself within the loudspeaker enclosure and its exterior baffles/walls.
The typical effects heard will be crisper and better defined attack and note shapings, punchier dynamics, improved focus and stage size,improved resolution of fine details, articulation & separation of instruments and a tauter & more tuneful bass.... however...
... some will hear the effects as having less "romance", warmth and "bloom" and sometimes will be observed as being harder and more revealing of problems elsewhere in the system.
Best,
Ken