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My neighbor just got some used Meadowlark HotRod Shearwaters. He has them sitting on wall-to-wall carpet. Would spikes make a difference and if so are there spikes specifically made for these?
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So no spikes?
I have found that spiked speakers on a suspended floor with shag carpeting were not a Good Thing. It introduces time-delayed acoustical feedback into the equipment rack, thus smearing the sound a bit.
There is no Yes or No. Try all 3 approaches.
I use isolation platforms now with good results. Symposium Svelte Shelves to be exact.
Check this, hope it helps! http://www.oregondv.com/spikes.htm
Nice loudspeakers by the way
it makes sense to make the speaker couple to the floor so as to be rock solid. i rather feel that the image tightens up by weliminating the micro movements that can be caused by speaker driver motion.
likewise clamping an LP to the platter of your TT.
...regards...tr
As an advocate of spikes I basically agree with you. But sometimes, if there is acoustic feedback to the rest of the system and that gear is not itself isolated from the feedback, then decoupling at the speaker instead of spikes, may very well produce better performance.
The more important question is what type for floor are you dealing with? Spiking to a suspended wood floor was a disaster for me. The whole room became resonant. Some form of decoupling is usually in order here. Spiking to a concrete floor yielded far superior results. Either way, spiking isn't always the solution regardless. Many have found various decoupling methods superior to straight up spiking...even on concrete floors.
I had my speakers spiked to a concrete basement floor - great.Took my system upstairs. Spikes were bad same symptoms you described.
Replaced spikes with Herbies Threaded Stud Gliders. Perfect.
Edits: 11/25/16
Original purpose of Spikes was to better connect speakers to an underlying concrete floor to better stabilse them .. despite Carpet.
Like everything in Audio weenie land:Uses expand to fill the nonexistant void.
Check the thread size first
There are some on Pat McGinty's site. Not sure if these would pierce the carpet though. Depends on underlay, etc. Otherwise, the speakers definitely appear to be threaded for spikes if you shop around.
Cheers!
Jonesy
"I know just enough to get into trouble. But not enough to get out of it."
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