Is Spiking Necesarry?

True story.

I have this old Jamo Sub200. Cheapo but pretty decent for the price. Using for HT only. Bought it used. It does good things but when the Hz goes low and loud, it would rattle/distort.

I removed its plastic feet. Put them on it is own screws and put felt pad under the screws. No more rattle/distortion. I cannot believe. I am very surprised how a simple trick fixed the problem.

I am sure spikes would work too (maybe better) if simple screws work.

I stopped using speaker spikes years ago when I found that simple and inexpensive Vibrapods (I've had suspended wood floors in listening rooms for many decades) keep the energy from the speaker from going into the floor and coming back into the speaker…many modern high end speakers have adopted something like this…also custom feet with some sort of suspension/damping can also accomplish this but at a far higher cost than Vibrapods. Currently (and with my previous speakers) my speakers are on butcher blocks with "pods" between the blocks and the speakers…works for me.

I stopped using speaker spikes years ago when I found that simple and inexpensive Vibrapods.....

I would consider Vibrapods "spikes", albeit loosely defined. They appear similar to the Herbies Gliders.

Put your hand on the floor (suspended, not slab) next to spiked speakers paying dynamic music with plenty of bass content and you can feel the vibration on the floor…do the same with Vibrapods (or other things that turn vibes into heat…like my cousin Shirley) and you should ( or will) feel zero vibration from the speakers. That’s the difference. Also, it it necessary to know how to spell "necessary?"

My problem with spikes and footers is that every time I've ever raised my speakers using them - and that includes several different speakers - I've found a change for the worse.  The  upper/lower bass tends to start bloating a bit more.  Whereas simply sitting directly on my wood floor (actually, sitting on a shag carpet over my wood floor), with no spikes, the sound stays tight and clean.  I don't know why.