Sound Anchor Blue Dots or BluTack??

I'm not familiar with Blue Dots, but Blu Tack and Herbie's Big Fat Dots are two completely different items. Blu Tack anchors speakers to the stands (Blu Tack), the other decouples speakers from the stands.

It's up to you to decide which you prefer, but it's completely listener dependent. One cannot be claimed universally better than the other.

I've used Blue Dots, Blu Tak, and Herbies Big Fat Dots between speakers and Sound Anchors stands and my preference was for the Herbies Big Fat Dots.

The Blue Dots come with the stands, Blu Tak can be found as Dap Blue Stik at most hardware or stationery stores under $2.00, and Herbies Big Fat Dots come with a money back guaranty, so why not try all three and see which you like the best?

Tvad's right on the methodology. To couple or not to couple.... that is well, one of the questions you'll have to answer for yourself. it won't cost much to find our either.

I'd say try as well, Bright Star nodes. I've found them certainly superior to the Sound Anchor blue discs which are merely a quite soft compliant material that's commonly available.

None of these suggestions, except mine, of course, is the way to go. My suggestion is to use 'moongel', which can be purchased from some of the on line music instrument stores. Essentially, this is a product used by drummers. I have used it under speakers for years and find it the best product to decouple the speakers from the stand. It also is very inexpensive. Give it a try.

I second (or third) the opinion that every stand-coupling method will yield a different sound in a resolving system. With my Harbeths on Skylans, Herbies Dots were by far the best. With my Operas on Targets, Blue Tak sounds the best to me. Keep in mind that some of these couplings that do not firmly fasten the speaker pose the danger of the speaker being knocked off the stand by a running child, so keep it in mind if you have kids around.