Spikes on tower speakers

Great to hear all the advice to stand the speakers on granite or marble.

Way to go guys.  I have been advocating this all over here.

But do you have a wooden suspended floor under your carpet or concrete.

If you have wooden, go with the stone stands.

If you have concrete, try to get your spikes to go though the carpet.  If they won't move perhaps turn them out with big grips and replace with longer?

I think the first thing I would do is contact the previous owner of the speakers and ask why the spikes were glued on and what type of adhesive was used. This could give you a clue as how to remove them. It sounds like, more than anything else, your issue is with leveling them, which is why most spikes are threaded into the speaker bases. I'm guessing yours may be stripped or non-existent.

+2 elliotbnewcombjr. 
Not everyone is comfortable with this approach but for the mechanically inclined I would have no issue with this. If however, the glue was inserted into deep holes predrilled into the speaker base, then we might have an issue vs surface mounted. Need to know. 

Butcher blocks.  I had moved my older floor standing speakers from a hardwood floor into a small carpeted room.  They sounded muffled.  I ordered spikes from the manufacturer and two hardwood butcher blocks from amazon. About $100 for all this.  Significant improvement and spared me the expense of buying bookshelves with stands.

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