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Richardl60
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Nearly, as mick says suck it and see (point 2) as this may depend on your insitu installation
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Baflar
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All great comments! I'll try summing up:
1. Proprietory cables will probably produce an improvement over the unbranded 'parallel' cables 2. The open-platform stands, terminating in castors, are unlikely to be any worse than expensive stands with spikes 3. Whatever the hoped-for improvement, it has to be tested in situ. All agreed?! (That sets me up for a mildly obsessive few months! ) |
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Aussie Mick
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And yet another option! I've put first generation Pulsar Points on the spikes of the stands and it's brought more precision and dynamic flexibility the sound. My opinion these days is that EVERYTHING matters to some degree and it's not always positive and not always obvious. Suck it and see is the only real way to know.
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Graham Slee
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I thought spikes were to penetrate through carpet therefore I don't use the spikes supplied with my stands because I have a tiled floor.
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Drewan77
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As far as spikes vs castors are concerned, I have a very nice pair of retired Shahinian Obelisks with castors fitted as standard and at no point did I feel that this compromised the sound on either solid or suspended floors. I haven't used 'standard' spikes on speakers for several years.
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Richardl60
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Whilst I remain agnostic in the spike debate many years ago filling some substantial metal stands with lead shot to deaden them completely ruined the sound of some of the Big IMF transmission line speakers robbing of dynamics and drives amongst other things. Care is needed to judge for yourself as to what works thigh stands are important as are the connections to the floor.
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Baflar
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Very helpful comment, Chris. Thanks for that. The dealer 'not a million miles away' did say I need speaker stands that spike to the floor, and fill the columns with sand. Given that this type of stand tends to have a solid platform, it seems to me that this will pretty reliably result in transmitting sound straight into my floorboards, introducing all sorts of colouration. It's much the same as the principle used in transmitting the vibration into the sound-box on an old-fashioned mechanical gramophone: a rigid element terminating in a somewhat flexible transmitter. At least the castors provide single-point contact, from a curved surface, so very little transmission, from a base that has negligible incoming vibration. All in all, I don't find the dealer's advice very credible...! |
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