This is definitely one of those areas where the best advice is "do something" and "see how it sounds and looks" and then move on. Every little bit helps, but you have to live with it and try to get back to other aspects of the system or just the music, itself.
Pads or Spikes?
Perhaps you can help?
Quite a few currently sold speakers utilize four spikes on the bottom of the speaker. I have a tile floor with a large area rug. My speakers however are on the tile. The question is are speaker pads better than spikes? If so, what brand of pads are recommended? Thank you!
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Years ago our living room was on a ground level concrete slab. Spiked feet on my heavy speakers worked great. My current living room is a suspended frame floor with carpeted sheathing.... the same spikes on the same speakers just exaggerated the resonance of the floor, and bass was boomy and ill-defined. Spring pucks worked much better in that situation. YMMV. As @hilde45 says, "do something" and see.... |
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