Heavy Speakers with Spikes on a Concrete Floor

Yes, I did. Pierre is a friend of mine and often has good ideas but this is not one of them. I tried one of his large $600 platforms that tilted the speaker upward and sat almost on the floor. Sounded VERY strange. I sold it to someone else who mounted floor standing speakers on it, not using the tilt feature. He had it for sale on Audiogon in a short time. I like the way my speakers sound on concrete [with thin rug]. I can't imagine how it would produce the kind of sound he describes. I had some boomy bass with WAY too much treble, but that was room reflection problems I cured with Ready Acoustics panels. I have had very good luck with Star Sound Audio Points but if what you have is working leave it alone.

As an alternative to maple get a sheet of 5/8 or thicker MDF, use 3 thicknesses of it separated by Blutak or generic equivalent at corners and held together by brass screws at corners and in center. Home Depot will cut it to size. I have done this for turntable stands. This is courtesy of Noel Noland at Skylan Stands. He maintains that it is better than maple, from my experience it is competitive with them but by the time I have taken my table apart and switched them and put the table back together it is impossible to make a reasoned judgement. The whole thing should rest on brass cones, tape washers or coins to bottom of stand for points to rest against or get threaded cones and drill stand to accept them. MUCH cheaper than maple, if you want to use maple try MICHIGAN MAPLE BLOCK or other supplier of cutting boards, I got a very good one from them.

I forgot to mention that I did get a maple platform from Timbernation last winter, took a little while but is quite good. On the other hand he told a friend of mine to send him diagrams for a custom stand but never followed up after he got them. So I would be cautious.

I though Herbies was one of them thar sexually transmitted deseases.