Sir Chewbury Gubbins wrote:

I did and I did but thought it polite to ask nonetheless ;-) Ok, a
seemingly unrelated event - a couple of months ago, my house burned
down. No, really. Anyhoo, we're back in now and on the verge of
replacing my very nice hi-fi with a very nice hi-fi that isn't burned
to
a crisp. Trouble is, my front room now has a laminate floor where it
had
a carpet before.

So where's the problem? Well, her indoors won;t let me stick isolation
sppikes on the bottom of my speaker stands in case it marks the
laminate (which it certainly would once I'd hammered em in
thoroughly).

The general consensus (according to google) seems to be to stick coins
between the spikes and the flooring. What do my esteemed colleagues
think?

Put the spikes flat side down on the floor and stand the speakers on the
points?