The same principle applies to the floor in your home.
How to isolate floor standing speakers carpet.
Place the stone on the carpet then set up the speaker on the stone.
The condo floor has a medium depth shag carpet i assume on a pad with concrete underneath.
The spikes were also to make the speakers stable instead of having them wobble a little.
Screw size is likely 1 4 20 thread but double check with a thread gauge from a tap set or take your rubber feet to hd or lowes and use their thread board.
Looking for a cheap diy solution to isolate them from the floor thinking of sitting the speakers on a piece of slate and something rubbery underneath between that and the floor hopefully.
Here s why you might want to reconsider.
The carpet will decouple the speaker from the floor quite a bit while the stone provides a dense sturdy platform for the speaker to sit give it time to fully settle on thick carpet.
Conventional wisdom had it that the spikes were to drain the vibrations from the speakers to the floor.
But max said the speakers should be placed on his seismic vibration isolation platform.
Based on what i ve read if the floor is cement or tile covered with carpet or not it s best to couple the speakers with the hard floor using spikes direct or through the carpet.
Whatever the reason plenty of people place their audio speakers on the floor.
The material of the floor the type of sub and enclosure and firing direction of the sub etc all need to be considered.
Spikes are only necessary if you have thick carpet and you want to stabilize the speakers plus raise them up a little bit.
How to upgrade your hi fi system or your audio equipment by successfully isolating from ground borne vibration 3hz and up.
In this video townshend audio is.
Obviously 80 us or au is just silly for rubber feet but that doesn t mean the idea is bad.
Several months ago after buying a pair of one meter tall 70 lb each atc two way active tower speakers scm19a i had a couple of guys from the local high end shop over to fine tune placement of the speakers.
If stone is out then try baltic birch plywood.
If the floor is suspended and is covered with hardwood e g basement underneath second floor etc it s best to decouple using a semi hard material e g.
Max said you should isolate your speakers and not spike them.
Or maybe you re going for a college chic aesthetic with everything from your mattress to your tv on the floor.
