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Penthouse-D

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Can anyone recommend something to protect hardwood flooring when using outriggers that have spikes with disks? Would be handy when trying to voice one's system. Thanks very much..
 
Penthouse-D said:
Can anyone recommend something to protect hardwood flooring when using outriggers that have spikes with disks? Would be handy when trying to voice one's system. Thanks very much..
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I use Herbie's gliders to good effect.

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+ 4 on Herbies gliders.

They allow me to move my 425lb speakers with ease and do a great job under my 500lb+ stand with front end components.
 
I cut some hardwood from Home Depot for platforms under the spikes and put them initially on cork+rubber blocks, and then on casters (interesting listening space and requirements), and now I have bigger speakers with no spikes, just speaker on wood, with nail-in furniture gliders with a layer of some kind of rubber that I had around between it and the wood, because I'm too cheap to buy Herbie's very inexpensive gliders. I like how things sound, and I can easily slide my speaker into the ideal place for listening, and then back to the ideal place for walking around my apartment.
 
Audiophilehi said:
How do the Herbie's sound? Compared to Stillpoints?
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You can't move Stillpoints. I prefer the Herbies under my speakers vs Stillpoints. Like most things, footers are not universal in the way they interact with gear..
 
Audiophilehi said:
Thanks XV-1



Interesting, may I ask why?
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Felt that the Herbies (Herbie's Cone/Spike Decoupling Gliders) to me seemed to help my bass along with a cleaner mid's and highs when placed over my 1/2 thick walnut hardwood floors. I took the extra $ I saved and bought music and some new interconnects. The Stillpoints were nice, but for the same performance at a lower cost I went with the lower cost route. Call me cheap, but logical.
 
CPP said:
Felt that the Herbies (Herbie's Cone/Spike Decoupling Gliders) to me seemed to help my bass along with a cleaner mid's and highs when placed over my 1/2 thick walnut hardwood floors. I took the extra $ I saved and bought music and some new interconnects. The Stillpoints were nice, but for the same performance at a lower cost I went with the lower cost route. Call me cheap, but logical.
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Thanks Chris! I wouldn't call you cheap. :) We all just like to spend money wisely and like bang for the buck. ;)
 
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