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In Reply to: Need source for discs for speaker spikes posted by bobwood on December 19, 2002 at 16:44:09:
Bob: Spikes should pass through the carpet, between the fibres, and do very little damage to the carpet. A disk will crush the carpet and leave round indents, as well as preventing a good solid anchoring of speaker to floor. If you must, there are some very stylish bi-metal disks up here in Canada (cost $2 each), but probably an American penny would work fine..... (at least to see if it affects the sound in an acceptable manner or not)
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I 'get' the anchoring thing but honestly I think the real value is as much changing the woofer to floor coupling as sticking it to the floor.My issue is in micro adjusting the speakers searching for the ideal sweet spot with widest imaging. To 'walk' those speakers is annoying and I'd much prefer to slide them around on discs. But quarters, doubloons, whatever, don't spread enough weight to work for me. Plus, I will need to get something into which I can drill little holes to hold the spike centered.
I'm doing it on boards - but they look like skis and the speakers look so good it's just ugly to see.
Any help, anybody? What kind of machine shop would do things like that?
Thanks!
Bob
Ed Soler.Check on Audiogon, he usually has an auction going on spikes (great ones at that). I know he also does pucks for them, in stainless steel, for probably $3-5 each. Great machining, beautiful spikes. Highly recommended.
Chris
You could also try www.audioc.com/accessories/mountsspikes.htm if your just looking for cheap disks to move your speakers around with. 3/4" disks; 8 for $12. But after finding your sweet spot, why continue to use them? That is unless your going to continuely move them around, then I`d go with Ed Soler`s pucks. He`ll custom-make the size you want. Robin :-)
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