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I have another question,been awhile since I wrote.My Sony speakers are on a carpet floor and rock even when I touch them ,I have seen inexpensive speaker coupling spikes,Should a component be rock steady and does it affect sound? What about all those isolation feet for Cd players/amps,Do they really improve the sound? Also I saw an Audioquest,would you believe this,Interconnect 1 meter for $999 at Audio Advisor.$8999 for a 6 meter!
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Dear Peter,
If your speakers are on a carpeted surface, by all means invest in some spike to anchor them. Wobbling won't affect the sound of the speaker, but the lack of a firm coupling to the floor will.
If isolation feet did anything for components, the component manufacturers would build them in and mark the price up.
Kindest regards,
Kevin Kevin.I rent and so I am skeptical about making any holes in the carpet,maybe I will anchor it down with something heavy on the base,And yes I laugh when I get the Audio Advisor catalogue,yes they have some good stuff,I bought my Grados from them but $80 A set for isolation feet $999 FOR A 1 METER INTERCONNECT! I could go on and on how do people get conned into buying this stuff.
AnswerDear Peter,
In my experience, speaker isolation spikes leave only the tiniest of holes in household carpet, so small that once they're removed the hole cannot be seen with the naked eye. But, yes, they can get expensive.
An acceptable alternative is a milk crate, you know, the 12" square plastic variety that distributors use to deliver milk to retail outlets. They're solid, rigid, and provide a motionless coupling between the speaker and the floor surface. Don't use the faux variety that Office Depot sells for Pendaflex folders; they have no steel reinforcement around the mouth, which real milk crates do.
Kindest regards,
Kevin
