Best reasonable$ upgrade from spikes?

Stuartbranson,

Is your floor wood frame or concrete slab? I would like to throw a twist into the discussion here. In my room the floor is flexible and is easily set to vibrating by the speakers. When the floor and walls (and equipment rack for that matter) vibrate, that is very bad. The music is muddy, sound stage obscured, bass is smeared, loss of pace. Very nasty. You can feel the vibration with your hands (on speaker, floor, racks, etc). You can get an idea of the grunge it adds to the music by listening with your ear against the floor, speaker, etc.

In my system, solid aluminum cones (generic brand) improved things somewhat (OK, a lot!). MUCH better than cones were 1/2" thick pads of sorbothane. Still better yet were stainless metal springs (better pace and "PRAT" than the sorbothane).

In my case the speaker's vibration is being isolated from the floor. If you have concrete slab, the points would probably work better for you - hopefully to reduce vibration of the box by "grounding" it. My guess is that the rubber or other non-linear material is not a good thing.

What do you other lads think? What kind of floor do you have?

Cheers
Charlie

Good point Charlie. Wood frame and thus suffering from all the symptoms you describe. I can feel those particularly boomy bass notes through the soles of my feet. Think i'll try the foot test in my experiments.

I changed from threaded screws to the Nordost and got more coherent sound plus deeper base. Go figure!

Lak is right dramatic doesn't mean much. Anyway thats about the best I could do in a rush. Brulee has done a very good job of describing these and is more eloquent on the subject.