Spikes are used by severly disordered teenagers to mutilate themselves.
Audio addicts call them carpet piercing pointed footers. Generally for use with speakers and for supporting a component. In this context they are called cones or cone footers. The idea is to direct the vibration energy that your gear generates as both music and internal energy shifting to a specific spot that is provided by the "spike". The vibration travels through the cone one way. That direction would be away from the audio gear they are attached to or are supporting until they terminate into a floor or other platform where it will quietly disperse over a very large area.
Newton said this is not the way things really work. Even though I agree with Sir Isaac but I sure do like them.. They are very cool looking and rather appealing aesthetically.
Sonically, I can't be certain if they work at all but in combination they seem to . see later.
The best islation dampening tweak that I know made a true difference for me. Was to rest my very resonant preamp on a closed cell viscoelastic non composite foam. That is a small inaccuracy in fact it is a composite because the foam rests on a slab of thick butcher block -edge grained. That shelf is supported itself from another identical platform by neoprene rubber and cork composite sandwiches termed isolation blocks. The whole shooting match is on a very low resonance and unresponsive concrete floor. It is not painted or polished so reflection is not an issue.
The sound was now much less echogenic and the repercussive vibratory "grunge" hash and other sonic atrocities were removed or you might say at least dampened if not deadened by this contraption. It thereby allows the music to sound clearer and better focused while still miraculously retaining enough reactivity to yield the pleasant harmonics that are deservedly sought after.
It's a fine line between too much and not enough . In fact there is a childrens tale about some bear family etc. Tread carefully on this thin line. Ultimately again moderation is the key.
In your case if you are using thin top heavy speakers, and your spikes are tall, without the use of outrigging support, the speaker will some day get bumped into and the whole Kit and Kaboodle will tumble in the direction Newton predicted it would, Gravity will guide the speaker floorward. No I don't use that brand of spike but do have a WAF system with speakers of that ilk with carpet piercing shrply tapered cones. WSo far no falls. We have helped to avoid a messy decent tweeter forward by partly filling the secret ballast compartment with very small entirely steel encasulated lead balls.The compartment has stayed closed for about 7 years with no leakage. It is safe to assume that the lead contained in the steel spheres will not penetrate its surround.
I have found some copper coated steel spheres recently to draw off EMI and RFI. I had intended them for the Sandbox I paid TIMBERNATION to make for me months and months ago. I am still waiting!
Audio addicts call them carpet piercing pointed footers. Generally for use with speakers and for supporting a component. In this context they are called cones or cone footers. The idea is to direct the vibration energy that your gear generates as both music and internal energy shifting to a specific spot that is provided by the "spike". The vibration travels through the cone one way. That direction would be away from the audio gear they are attached to or are supporting until they terminate into a floor or other platform where it will quietly disperse over a very large area.
Newton said this is not the way things really work. Even though I agree with Sir Isaac but I sure do like them.. They are very cool looking and rather appealing aesthetically.
Sonically, I can't be certain if they work at all but in combination they seem to . see later.
The best islation dampening tweak that I know made a true difference for me. Was to rest my very resonant preamp on a closed cell viscoelastic non composite foam. That is a small inaccuracy in fact it is a composite because the foam rests on a slab of thick butcher block -edge grained. That shelf is supported itself from another identical platform by neoprene rubber and cork composite sandwiches termed isolation blocks. The whole shooting match is on a very low resonance and unresponsive concrete floor. It is not painted or polished so reflection is not an issue.
The sound was now much less echogenic and the repercussive vibratory "grunge" hash and other sonic atrocities were removed or you might say at least dampened if not deadened by this contraption. It thereby allows the music to sound clearer and better focused while still miraculously retaining enough reactivity to yield the pleasant harmonics that are deservedly sought after.
It's a fine line between too much and not enough . In fact there is a childrens tale about some bear family etc. Tread carefully on this thin line. Ultimately again moderation is the key.
In your case if you are using thin top heavy speakers, and your spikes are tall, without the use of outrigging support, the speaker will some day get bumped into and the whole Kit and Kaboodle will tumble in the direction Newton predicted it would, Gravity will guide the speaker floorward. No I don't use that brand of spike but do have a WAF system with speakers of that ilk with carpet piercing shrply tapered cones. WSo far no falls. We have helped to avoid a messy decent tweeter forward by partly filling the secret ballast compartment with very small entirely steel encasulated lead balls.The compartment has stayed closed for about 7 years with no leakage. It is safe to assume that the lead contained in the steel spheres will not penetrate its surround.
I have found some copper coated steel spheres recently to draw off EMI and RFI. I had intended them for the Sandbox I paid TIMBERNATION to make for me months and months ago. I am still waiting!