Audio Banter - View Single Post - Convert speaker spikes from quadrupod to tripod

**Scott Dorsey** · August 24th 09, 04:40 PM posted to rec.audio.opinion,rec.audio.pro,uk.rec.audio

In article ,
Laurence Payne wrote:
On 24 Aug 2009 12:33:37 -0400, (Scott Dorsey) wrote:

Reading at face value, that reply states that spikes either couple or
decouple the speaker from what it's standing on. Depending on which
you WANTED them to do.

This can't be right. What DID you mean?

It depends on what you do with the spikes and where you place them. The
original intention was to couple the speaker through a carpet to a solid
floor, so the floor and the speaker move as a system. But they can also be
used with a flexible material like a rubber pad to decouple the speakers from
the floor.

In the second case, why spikes? Why not just the rubber pad?

You want to minimize the area of contact with the pad. Plenty of more
efficient ways to do that than spikes, mind you, but spikes are usually
what people have handy.
--scott
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