spikes under a subwoofer ?

Perhaps I should add that the HGS series subs are front firing.

Good point : )

The effects mentioned above should still be similar but possibly not quite as drastic. Sean
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Have a look at this page: www.sonicdesign.se/sdfeet.html
Quite interesting, and to my knowledge, you can excite
resonances in the floor even if it´s made of concrete!
I have tested the SD-feet just in this case,(and at different places) and the improvment in sound quality was remarkable!
The Danish loudspeaker, CDP and amplifier- company Holfi is marketing simular soft feet, they also claim that floor and loudspeaker cabinet vibration is significantly lower with their softfeet(some thousand times lower vibrations, if I remember correct).
Of course,I have no commercial interest in either of these
companies.
You have to weight the front- and back-side of your loudspeaker or sub, to get the right stiffness in the feets.I think there are feets up to a load of about 450 Lb. They are made of a material that doesn´t have closed cells,therefore the feet wouldn´t collapse with time.
I can´t say what the prices for the SD-feet are at the moment(set of eight of them),but I believe that you should
be able to get a set at about $130 including shipment
to the US.

Regards
Håkan

No one right answer. You sue the method that reduces the cabinet movement, simply put. THAT depends on the floor. For instance, my C4's with spikes firmly into the concrete floor simply blow away the speakers sitting on the carpet. ANY movement kills higher frequency doopler distortion, too, as the tweeter moves so little relative to a big old speaker rocking around. For my floor, the spikes rule!

I have DD10+ subs that sit right on the floor (odd) and I'm still wondering about that. Sure, bass is a LONG wavelength from a sub, so technically it is less easy to hear the doopler movement and yes, bass has a lot of distortion recorded-in, or produced by the driver. But, the C4's low-end resolution improved substantially with spikes into a concrete (not wobbly OSB subfloor)floor.

I do, and don't, buy that subs need to be on the floor with modern digital EQ. And, in my case, the room is 40 feet long so I have TOO much below 30 Hz! So again, it's the "system" that matters. Fix yours and don't just be someone else's stereo in your different sounding house.

I think what you need are the Auralex SubDude HD Isolation Riser (the HD means it's dressed up a bit for home use v. the regular SubDude). Widely used in homes and pro studios. These are foam type supports to use under subs (there are speaker and desk versions also). The things really work!

Kal Rubinson did a review in Stereophile in about 2005 or 2006, and it was basically a rave review. Absorbed vibrations, the house and bookshelves no longer vibrated, and the sound was improved considerably.

They're for sale on various sites (Audio Advisor, Music Direct), where you can also read numerous user reviews, which are something like 98% very positive, even raves. Cost is about $60 for the sub version.