Heavy Speakers with Spikes on a Concrete Floor

Tvad, Yes they are some expensive brass balls and pricey wood too. Timbernation, isn't that the place that many Audiogon members were having trouble getting the products that were paid for?

Srwooten, I always thought Concrete floors was a plus too.

Dog gone it though, I will have to at least try putting the Mrytle wood blocks under my speaker spikes just to see if there is a change.
If I dont comment back soon, I am in traction.

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 was always under impression that using the spikes to pierce thru the carpet and contact the concrete was always the correct way to go;is this pratice not correct now?