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Spikes-Marble-Carpet-Wood Floors

My Snell CVs are about 100 lbs each. My hardwood floors are covered with a wool rug and pad. Currently I am using a set of aluminum Tiptoes I have had for about 20+ years.

The Tiptoes are not threaded they just sit under the speakers. I am not sure they are really coupled to the floor that well. They are going thru the rug and pad but is that enough?
I do have two marble slabs that could go under the speakers.

Should I place the marble under the rug? or on top of the rug? I am also wondering about gluing the Tiptoes to the bottoms of the speakers for a better connection.
Or should I just make some threaded DIY spikes and forget the Tiptoes?
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inna
7,235 posts
 
Hmm.. Not so easy to predict the outcome. In any case, you don't want the speakers to float on the carpet even if they sit on marble slabs. You probably don't want to do it because it's not cheap, but I would get big threaded Audiopoints brass spikes to try first. Some might also recommend Mapleshade or Vermont Audio big fat brass footers. I never tried them, only Audiopoints, but suspect that they may be slow which would be unacceptable to me.
I myself have a hardwood floor but no carpet so my arrangement would not be of much use to you.
devilboy
1,175 posts
 
I would try to absorb speaker vibrations into a maple platform. Think about this: If your speakers sit on top of a hard surface (like marble), then all vibrations that your speaker produces goes down the cabinet, through the spikes, and hit the marble. Then, reflects off of the marble, up through the spikes again, and back into the cabinet.
inna
7,235 posts
 
That's right. Yeah, you could try the maple platform, but this platform should be spiked with the spikes going through the carpet into the hardwood floor; and the speakers should be spiked as well while on the platform.
This would not be a very cheap arrangement either.
And I probably would not use maple thicker than 2" or so because this may slow the sound down. You could also try cherry platform though most people prefer maple.
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