Floorstanders over Suspended Hardwood-Help Please


I have a pair of Silverline Sonatas that weigh in at about 120 pounds each. When I lived in my previous home, I used a set of four points under each speaker over a thick carpet and an equally think pad. I recently moved and these speakers will now be in a room with suspended hardwood floors. There is a berber carpet over a portion of the room and under where the speakers will be placed. With their weight, the Silverlines will drive the points right through the berber and couple with the hardwood. Bad.

I need to find a solution and have thought of three possibilities:
1) Find a very thick pad to place under the berber and use the points like before.
2) Use discs under the points directly atop the berber. Stable?
3) Get some 1-2” slabs of marble, using iso-pads between the marble and the carpet and points/discs between the speakers and the marble.

I have tried using slabs under other floorstanders over carpet and always found them to be less than rock solid in the vertical plane.

Do any of these approaches seem best, or are there others to consider. Please keep in mind that I do NOT want to spend several hundred dollars on platforms such as Sistrum, etc.
motdathird

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Look at SOUND ANCHORS web link for ConeCoasters -
http://www.soundanchors.com/page24.html

They are about $14.00 each, but will work on top of the berber to isolate the speakers w/o any damage to the floors underneath.

Do to their Heavy Guage Stainless Steel construction, even if your speakers weighed 1200 lbs. they could hold it!

They are stable, no need for marble, NUF SAID!!!

Good Luck
These Coaster are about the size of a Silver Dollar & about 3/8" of machined Stainless steel. They weigh about 4-5 oz. each, & w/ a 120# of load pushing on them will be level even on carpet! You will have to loose the BOLT'S & get youself some points, or spikes.
What are you considering "Suspended" hardwood floor?

Free-Floating Pergo/Wilson-Art/Armstrong?
Glued, or Snap-Together?
Or Nail-down 3/4" Tounge-n-Groove?
Or 3/8" Tounge-n-Groove Glue down?

Even if you are talking about a Floating floor which expands & contracts as one piece. It floats over foam padding which is compressed by the total weight. I honestly could NOT see your speakers walking/wobbeling off these coasters no matter how much Low End you are experiencing in this new room.
Yep, Could be the room! In a perfect world our listening rooms would not also known as the Living/Family room, or a Spare bedroom.
What if just you hung them from the ceiling on 4 chains like the old BOSE 901 FAD??? :)~ Motdathird, I was only KIDDING!
OH, The old 2" x 5/16" top nail red oak strip flooring.
These aren't that hard, would make for one major dimple/crater is directly on the wood!

Ever drop your House/Car keys on these Floors, see how easy the mark-up???
Hdm, that's actually a GOO ONE!

Yet how about acrylic, instead of having tempered glass so close to the floor/vacumn/children?

Then why not just sandwich the acrylic with blue-dots & only use the vibrapods directly between the speakers & the top?

Also use some sort of felt/polyester furniture self-adhesive protective pad between the bottom of base & carpet/hardwood?