speaker stands on wood floors

Soft chewey centers? What are you guys talking about? If it is lead or sand they are damping components. Lead and sand and rubber are storage devices. These materials do not transfer the resonant energy many of you are voicing, rightfully so, that you want to rid your system of. To rid your system of noise and accoustic glare you must transmit the nasties to ground! If you dampen it or absorb it, it will only come back to stab you in the ear later. This stored energy will come back to haunt you either by robbing your music of lost dynamics or by releasing the nasties at a different time and frequency. If you really want to hear your equipement for the first time and hence the music, you must couple, not isolate or dampen. I use Sistrum APCD coupling discs on top and under all wooden surfaces that I place Sistrum Platforms or Audiopoints. Don... these are devices that I feel are fundamentally correct, beyond any other, and therefore represent a great value. Because they work so well, you will keep them in your system all the while replacing speakers and electronics. Tom

Don, I have found it best to use the Audiopoint APCD discs from Starsound under the points of speakers rather than having the point go directly into the wood. Beause of the shape of the disc, more resonance is captured off the point and transfered over a wider contact area and onto the wood suface. I use these discs on all soft surfaces. This method is the best way to capture and transfer resonance to ground. Tom