Reynaud Magic Stand, spikes on carpet?

Bobneill, I'm not sure you want to put blue tak between the stands and the carpet. I don't see that doing anything besides ruining the capret. Phil, if I were you, I'd probably look into cones. If it was explained to me correctly, those stands don't have holes that go all the way through the base plate? Thus eliminating a way to put spikes through the base. Brian has some brass cones that you may want to look into. You could always hot glue them to the base of the stands. Just an idea.

Thanks Bob, my speakers have something on the bottom that is tacky and about 3/8" diameter and 1/8" thick, I will ask the seller what it is as I presume the Trentes are not sold with it on. It seems to be almost the consistancy of blue tac so it may be alright.

That is a good idea Seth and will look into all my options and report back.

As far as sound quality, I think the tonal balance of the speakers is very nice with the stands on the carpet but I think the bass is 'soft' in a manner similar to a friends speakers who had the front of his sound anchor stands on a throw rug, the definition is 'muffled' and the coherency of the sound suffers. In comparison, with the speakers sitting on cement blocks that I used before the magic stands, the bass was tight and powerful with slam.

thanks again guys and I will see what works and report back

Phil

Phil:

I used sturdy 28" Target stands with Twins (big improvement over the Magic stands/Twin combo auditoned in a SOTA listening room).

If the blocks sound better in your room then follow what you hear.

None of the pro reviews (that I am aware of) tried the Reynauds on sturdy 28" stands (24" stands just don't cut it from my experience, with the Twins anyway), which is both lame and a shame as much better sound can be had.

Think my Target's were $250, or so, on the used market, but there are many others to choose from.

I Have Trente's on 22" sand filled, four-post non-welded Target Clones. They are quite inert. I am curious about using the Magic stands, but right now my ear is about even with the top of the woofer bracket, I just can't see the speakers needing to go up 6" (plus it must look really, really top-heavy), but I've never heard them, so I can't really say for sure...

My brother is going to make me some custom made spikes out of metal for my magic stands

I will let you guys know

thanks to all