Anything you can put between spikes and carpet?


I've been playing around with my speaker positioning and a recurring issue that I've never quite been able to satisfactorily resolve came up again. While my speakers - Verity Fidelios - have pretty long adjustable spikes on heavy brass footers, I never feel like they're making especially good contact with the subfloor under the carpet and pad. I think I could possibly tighten up my bass response with a more solid contact. Is there anything that I could put the speakers on that would give them a more solid coupling for bass purposes? I was thinking of some heavy MDF squares, or even Corian, but then of course the board is not coupled to the floor. Any thoughts?
grimace
I had to deal to deal with the same issue. My Tidals don't have spikes but the footers need to couple to something solid. I ended up being very happy with squares of granite (see photos in my system description.) The bass tightened up very nicely compared to lighter weight limestone tiles I'd used before that. The polished surface of the granite is a flatter plane than the surface of most concrete floors, no problem with uneven contact. As to worries about not being coupled to the floor compromising sound, one just has to try it and see I suppose. I don't see how the coupled mass of heavy speaker and stone slab is going to be making any movement of sufficient amplitude to diminish performance though. The experiment isn't particularly expensive, a stone supplier/kitchen remodeller only charged me $100 for two good sized slabs with polished edges. After replacing the carpet in our home with a floating strand bamboo floor, the speakers sound just as good on the floating floor as they did on stone slabs. We did put down a high quality acoustic foam sound transmission attenuating underlayment.
It sounds like the feet on your speakers are too fat to cut through your thick carpet and bight into the wood floor underneath. If that's the case, thin spikes should solve the problem. If you call The Cable Company and tell them what you need, they should have it right in stock.
Ok so I almost hate to bring this up but is it better to try and couple the speaker to suspended wood floor via sharp spikes or isolate it via pads made of concrete, tile, or stone? Thoughts"
I've had this issue before..just enlarge the hole where the spike is with a leather punch or nail...you won't see if you move the speakers later. This is more stable than putting a heavy slab on the carpet
I have my Tonians on a 1 1/2" maple butcher block with metal discs under the spikes. I used to have some flagstone under the butcher blocks and tried many variations with these three elements and ended up without the flagstone, then without the discs, and then with just two per speaker and then under all the spikes, all along with experimenting with speaker cabling.

It took awhile to get what I wanted which made me very aware that even the slightest change alters the sound in a significant way.

Heed all advice but in the end, trust your ears.

All the best,
Nonoise