What's the idea behind spikes under speakers?!?
I understand that "layman intuition" may be a factor here, that a spike feels solid and rigid to the touch and would make the speaker "stay absolutely still".
As an engineer, my intuition (and my experiments) indicate that spikes makes no sense whatsoever
(edit: and I have Mr Newton and a bunch of other like really old guys hinting that my intuition aligns pretty well with with their work -work that kinda was essential to putting a man on the moon which elegedly worked out pretty OK). A bunch of spikes screwed tightly into a normal sized speaker, in my mind, is pretty much a high-Q resonant coupling to antother unknown, but not seldom resonant object (the floor).
If you want the speakers to stay still in the audible range and also not transfer any dicernible energy to other objects, a soft, "floating" coupling with a resonant frequency outside, preferably below the audible range, would be the best option.
So, why do the majority of speaker manufacturers ship their "high-end" speakers with spikes?!? It makes no sense whatsoever, unless you want the posibility of having both the speaker resonate at say 50-200Hz and also risking to have say, the wooden floor in the listening room chiming in-which the speaker manufacturers have pretty much no influence over whatsoever- they stand on emmit sound!?!
Enlighten me, please!
I understand that "layman intuition" may be a factor here, that a spike feels solid and rigid to the touch and would make the speaker "stay absolutely still".
As an engineer, my intuition (and my experiments) indicate that spikes makes no sense whatsoever
(edit: and I have Mr Newton and a bunch of other like really old guys hinting that my intuition aligns pretty well with with their work -work that kinda was essential to putting a man on the moon which elegedly worked out pretty OK). A bunch of spikes screwed tightly into a normal sized speaker, in my mind, is pretty much a high-Q resonant coupling to antother unknown, but not seldom resonant object (the floor).If you want the speakers to stay still in the audible range and also not transfer any dicernible energy to other objects, a soft, "floating" coupling with a resonant frequency outside, preferably below the audible range, would be the best option.
So, why do the majority of speaker manufacturers ship their "high-end" speakers with spikes?!? It makes no sense whatsoever, unless you want the posibility of having both the speaker resonate at say 50-200Hz and also risking to have say, the wooden floor in the listening room chiming in-which the speaker manufacturers have pretty much no influence over whatsoever- they stand on emmit sound!?!
Enlighten me, please!
