Speaker Spike

[bjackson]

Are there advantages to using speaker spikes, and if so, what are they, and secondly can a DIY solution be fixed up?

I was thinking about cutting a couple circles with my router, one 4" in diameter, and one 1" in diameter or so, to make a pseduspike, or is something else recommended?

[Sherman]

Go to a shop that sells leather items such as belts and jackets for bikers. Extremely large selection of spikes designed for installing in leather items but easily modified for amps, speakers etc.

[bjackson]

They would have to be some pretty massive spikes to hold up my 100lbs per side design....... :-)

We are talking hard core clothing spikes... ehhe

[ralph-bway]

Try a tatoo parlor that does body piercing.

Sorry couldn't resist.

[soongsc]

Spikes are used to decouple vribration between two surfaces that cannot make perfectly flat contact. Normally the speakers are close to perfectly flat, but the floor might not be. This is where you benefit from the spikes. Normally use three per surface.

[bjackson]

What pattern is used for three spikes? I have always seen 4 spikes on speakers before, would three be less stable?

[Timn8ter]

Originally posted by bjackson
What pattern is used for three spikes? I have always seen 4 spikes on speakers before, would three be less stable?

Two in front, one in back. If you have a four-legged stool and one leg is shorter than the others it will wobble. Not so with a three-legged stool.

[Bill Fitzpatrick]

My woofer boxes are on tripod legs with felt pads. They are stable but if there was a brawl in my room they could go over.

[soongsc]

I still have "tip toes", I think it was the best performing spikes. I also use spikes that allow you to screw them on to the speaker if you so desire, these look like feet from the outside but are little strong spikes on the inside.