Can I Live With A Hardwood Floor?

dentdog thanks for the info. My amp runs off a battery so no issue there. Akiko offers a Squeeze Box and DAC Power Supply for 350 euro and given that my sonic objections are confined to my DAC, I'm thinking that this would be an affordable antidote.The SAC interests me but I'm looking for a better college to teach in so $1,500.00 is a little steep for the moment.
I have been looking at acoustic foam to place along the slanting attic walls. The house is a shotgun style built in 1887 and so I;m hoping that $60.00 worth of foam will help with the occasional shrill and separation distortion in the treble. A proper wool carpet would be nice as well.  

goofyfoot
Can I Live With A Hardwood Floor?

Cement slab floors are the best, but some like myself and you have hardwood suspended floors, but the floor itself will become a soundboard if the speaker is coupled to it in any way, really screwing with the bass.

The best is to totally decouple the speaker from the floor, by ways of thick amounts of Sobothane type materials between speaker and floor to stop any bass energy from speaker being transmitted into the floor.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Genuine-Sorbothane-4-x-64mm-Isolation-Pods-Domes-Feet-2-5in-Dia-LARGE-BIG-PODS-/370465792771?hash=item56417b6303:g:UA8AAOxy4dNS6cB0
It says 4 will take 34kg, which just happens to be your Quads weight, so I would use 6-8 per speaker so they don’t squash as much.
  
Also have a look in their ebay shop, as they have screw in Sorbothane feet as well and many others.
http://www.ebay.com.au/sch/m.html?_odkw=&_ssn=dang-good-stuff&hash=item56417b6303%3Ag%3AUA8AAOxy4dNS6cB0&item=370465792771&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2046732.m570.l1313.TR4.TRC2.A0.H0.TRS0&_nkw=Sorbothane&_sacat=0


Cement slab floors are the opposite, you want to couple the speaker into them via spike or cones.

Cheers George

Couple spikes to cement and energy just shoots back up.
This may be a good thing for rock, but is poison for acoustic music .
Best thing is to put Herbies threaded Gliders on your speakers, 8 are less than 200$ .

schubert, I'm using Herbie's Titanium Gliders. They are working better over a thick wool blanket than on the hardwood floor.

george hifi, I might try placing pieces of rubber mat under the feet. The rubber is made from recycled tires but that doesn't matter since I'm using titanium decoupler's.