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Heavy Speakers with Spikes on a Concrete Floor

Looking through the current Mapleshade flyer, the flyer states that speakers sitting on a concrete floor will have boomy bass and treble that is muted.
Their suggestion is to buy their 4” thick Maple with 3” spikes platforms and place them under the speakers.

Now, forget for now the price of these platforms. Is their value to this claim?
If there is a value, I would think that instead of steel spikes, speaker manufactures would make a Maple speaker type footer. Wouldn’t that make more sense?

And secondly, how would I be able to place a 215 lb speaker with large spikes onto this platform?
ozzy
buconero117
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Maple is in effect telling you to decouple the speakers from the floor. Their are many materials that could do that, at much less expense. The issue is do the speakers you have benefit from one method vs. the other. Only trying it out will tell you. The key here is always remembering you hear the speakers/room, not just the speakers. Do some room analysis to 'see' how flat the room is.
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ozzy OP
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Buconero117, I would like to try it but as I have posted, my speakers weigh 215 lbs each and this is not an easy task for this old man to move around and slide a maple platform underneath.
And by by the way, the ones I would need for my size speakers from Maplshade would cost about $1600!

Tvad, I don’t under the treble statement either.

I am such a tweaker though, that I would like to get some inclination that there is merit to the Mapleshade statement

I do know that using a 4" Maple butcher block with Audio points underneath it improved my Amp.
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almarg
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Concrete weakens and enormously muddies the bass while rolling off and harshening the treble

I suppose "rolling off" and "harshening" could be reconciled in terms of, say, an emphasis in the 3 to 6kHz region followed by a rolloff above that. But I can't imagine how the surface that is immediately under the speaker could produce any kind of effect like that.

It has struck me in the past that more than a few of the statements in their catalog are, um, unlikely to have universal applicability.

I do, though, use their four-inch maple amp stand and isoblocks, and I've been pleased with them.

Regards,
-- Al
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