The spike dilemma

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Audiophiles spike their speakers for better sound. Debate rages as to spike's efficacy, but I don't intend to address that in this post. Instead, I want to examine the decision to use them in the first place. Spikes are supposed to provide a degree of isolation. The thought goes something like this. Coupling a loudspeaker to the floor with its full base touching, transfers speaker energy into the floor—something we don't want to do. Some would rather all the energy moves air instead. I would argue that one of the reasons we even use speakers, as opposed to headphones, is to recreate what happens in a concert where sound pressure moves more than just air. We feel sound as well as hear it. If spiking a set of loudspeakers lessen the physical movement of music in the room, are we not attempting to ameliorate one of the principal benefits of the speakers themselves? Food for thought.
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