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Floorstanders over Suspended Hardwood-Help Please

I have a pair of Silverline Sonatas that weigh in at about 120 pounds each. When I lived in my previous home, I used a set of four points under each speaker over a thick carpet and an equally think pad. I recently moved and these speakers will now be in a room with suspended hardwood floors. There is a berber carpet over a portion of the room and under where the speakers will be placed. With their weight, the Silverlines will drive the points right through the berber and couple with the hardwood. Bad.

I need to find a solution and have thought of three possibilities:
1) Find a very thick pad to place under the berber and use the points like before.
2) Use discs under the points directly atop the berber. Stable?
3) Get some 1-2” slabs of marble, using iso-pads between the marble and the carpet and points/discs between the speakers and the marble.

I have tried using slabs under other floorstanders over carpet and always found them to be less than rock solid in the vertical plane.

Do any of these approaches seem best, or are there others to consider. Please keep in mind that I do NOT want to spend several hundred dollars on platforms such as Sistrum, etc.
motdathird
audiobugged
528 posts
 
Look at SOUND ANCHORS web link for ConeCoasters -
http://www.soundanchors.com/page24.html

They are about $14.00 each, but will work on top of the berber to isolate the speakers w/o any damage to the floors underneath.

Do to their Heavy Guage Stainless Steel construction, even if your speakers weighed 1200 lbs. they could hold it!

They are stable, no need for marble, NUF SAID!!!

Good Luck
motdathird OP
77 posts
 
Thanks, AB, but I wonder how these coasters are different from any other disc. I could be wrong because I haven't tried this yet but I would think that points setting in this kind of coaster over the berber would result in a speaker that was no too solid. I mean they would tend to rock even a little from the speaker vibration.

Right now I have the speakers on the berber using threaded bolts with small rubber cups over the heads. They sit solid but I am getting a bit too much bass thump from that floor.
audiobugged
528 posts
 
These Coaster are about the size of a Silver Dollar & about 3/8" of machined Stainless steel. They weigh about 4-5 oz. each, & w/ a 120# of load pushing on them will be level even on carpet! You will have to loose the BOLT'S & get youself some points, or spikes.
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