Coupling or isolating floorstan. to the floor?


Best thing to do with heavy floostanding loudspeakers on the tile floor? Spikes vs Rubber feet. Whereis best place to buy spikes?
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How's this for a theory on why bearings might work? Speaker cabinets flex, which is a bad thing. A cabinet might flex more if speaker excursions make it want to move but one of its surfaces is tied down than if the whole speaker is floating and free to move as a whole. In the latter case, you may be trading some inefficient movement of the speaker for lower cabinet distortion.

That is strictly for-fun armchair theorizing, but I think it's probably worth as much as all the other generalizations of why spikes, cones, V-pods, bladders, etc. work that I've heard. I think there are complex tradeoffs involved no matter what method you try, so you just have to see what works with your particular piece of equipment. Trying to decide which theory to believe in just ignores the reality of numerous interacting factors, and therefore doesn't seem productive -- that's the only conclusion I've been able to arrive at. I myself haven't tried bearings but would be happy to when time and $ allow.