Speaker spike feet?

"Isolating the speakers with springs, making them less rigid, sounds better"

In my experience, that depends on the specific conditions. That approach worked well for me when I had the speakers on a suspending hardwood flooring, e.g., second floor, above basement, etc. Direct/solid coupling worked better when I had the same speakers on hardwood floor on concrete slab or on tiles on concrete. I also think the results could vary depending on the speaker design and the location of the woofer and its relative proximity to the floor, assuming a floor standing speaker.

Obviously, if you look hard enough you can find somebody somewhere who doesn’t follow the pattern. Somebody who like rubber, somebody who likes Sorbothane, somebody who likes lead. These things happen. He’s an outlier. Isolation is important and effective even for cement slabs since the entire building is moving.

N80;

Or Journeyman Machinist 

How do the spikes sound?
could you tell a difference or “ so so”?

It was obvious with mine? 

Ps: Next set make out of a M4 tool steel hardened to 55-60 Rockwell & pint ground to 32 rms
lol

jeff

N80;

Take pics of your setup!
Ariel are nice speakers & Iron base is a new one for me?

jeff

jeff, I honestly can't say I noticed a big difference.

Right now, making this sort of subjective assessment is very hard. I'm one who agrees that a lot of things affect my ability to judge music quality from what mood I happen to be in to which model of leaf blower my neighbor is running outside my window. I also think it is very easy to internalize what I hear from others ("it will sound better with spikes") and to yield to my expectation of improved quality based on having taken the time to make these i.e. I've gone to the trouble to make them, surely it must sound better. And then I fight these expectations trying to be objective....and the end result is that I don't know.

I'm listening right now and they sound marvelous. Better than before? Probably. A revelation? No.

As for the OEM bases, they are rectangular channel steel, 4 pieces welded together and there is clearly something in them because they are heavy. I know they are OEM because Aerial sent me a schematic.

I am no machinist. You can tell that by looking closely at the picture I posted of them. I have a grinding wheel, a drill press and an angle grinder. All of them old. And no training. Any pretense at craftsmanship in my posts above was purely for humor.