Spikes on tower speakers

@vinylvalet. ​​@clearthinker is absolutely correct. Any movement of the speaker enclosure is distortion. This occurs mainly in the bass. Put your hand on the speaker while playing a bass heavy number. That vibration you feel is distortion. The floor to the speaker is analogous to the tonearm to the cartridge. The floor has to absorb the energy transmitted by the speaker without reflecting it back. Admittedly, some floors are better at this than others but, that is a floor problem not a speaker problem. 

All Speakers producing bass have to be anchored to the floor. Any other approach is absurd. The OPM should take this into account and anchor his speakers to the floor. If the spikes are too short to make it down to the floor then you need longer ones. If you feel uncomfortable doing this yourself find someone that is not. I would gladly do it for you if you live in New England.

Wouldn't it make more sense to spike the speakers into something that dissipates the energy before it reaches the floor? If one insists on spikes why ignore the floor vibrations as if it doesn't matter?

My speakers are Hartley Reference, yes the one with the 24" woofers (each powered by ARC SS amps running as mono blocks in a tri-amp system).

They weigh about 300 lbs each.  I use teflon footers that are about 1.25" in diameter so that I can move them without tearing up the new heavy duty vinyl plank flooring over concrete.

As an experiment I balanced a nickel on edge on each speaker.  Actually I thought that they wouldn't last one listening session.  Well to my delight and amazement they remained exactly where I put them for over a month.  Okay enough already, I got tired of looking at them.

Just one guys experience, couple...decouple...whatever sounds best to you.

Regards,

barts 

To be clear, the spikes are not removable for me because they are strongly glued onto the speakers. If someone knows how to loosen the powerful glue, please help. Otherwise I need to sink the spikes into something that then can be put on a carpet or on a base that goes on the carpet.

As some have stated, you want to have solid contact with the floor below; so, yes, the spikes have to pierce the carpet. I don’t believe that a wood platform, even slate (or other stone) on top of the carpet will be completely free of rocking even with the weight of the speaker placed on it. Additionally, you don’t want for the bottoms of the speakers to be making much (if any) contact with the carpet below which will serve to dampen the speaker. My suggestion: get cones with sharp enough points to pierce the carpet and that are taller than the spikes on the speakers now; original tall TipToes come to mind. They don’t have to be glued on or screwed in to get most of the benefit. On the assumption that you currently have three spikes per side, simply reverse the 2&1 arrangement. If you currently have two spikes in the back, put one cone in the back and two in the front; or, vice versa.  Leave the spikes as they are.  Good luck.