Speakers on floor?

12-20-10: Onhwy61 wrote:
The concept is well grounded in theory. It greatly reduces the floor bounce cancellation effect. You may or may not like the resulting sound.

Nope. It changes the frequencies that are most affected by floor bounce and/or SBIR but it does not minimize the influence unless you have a favorite frequency.

Kal

I suppose one could argue that regardless of the effect, the speakers were developed and voiced for traditional floor stands?

Artmaltman, Or a book shelf close to the wall which happens to be a room boundary and room boudaries support low frequencies. Except most folks pull the speakers a few feet into the room distancing the speaker from all room boundaries. The floor is another room boundary and could give the listen the sound they are looking for while maintaining the improved imaging of placing the speakers into the room.

Funny this came up just one day after I placed my Grand Veena speakers right on the floor without their spikes.

The GV have been reported to be a bit shy in the bass.
Not now.

In fact all the frequencies seem a tad more robust.

The speakers are tilted back already for time alignment so no need to fuss with that.

I need to spend a few more days running spikeless with the speaker sitting on a carpeted(not thick pile)concrete basement floor.

Maybe it's just the difference in height to my ears, but I don't think so, as the tone never changes with the spikes even when I sit upright or stand up.

I know this goes against the grain and harkens back to the days when spikes were just snake oil to the purists, but there is something to be gained this way with my set up.

Has anyonelse had any similare spikeless experiences?

I have a low ceiling in my basement 84" so I like the sound with the tweeters lower than ear level. I have 20" monitor speakers and 12" stands and also dedicated 16" stands and I prefer the lower stands much better. I also have them tilted up with old school Audioquest sorbothane dampers. I've also experimented with the speakers on the floor tilted up and I like that presentation as well. I think it all depends on the room but for me with the low ceiling, low stands sound better...