Spiked stands on thick carpet

I have some solid Oak blocks 45 x 35cm and 40mm thick that are ideal for putting stands on thick carpet you can have for a small fee.  They are heavy mind so postage won't be cheap.

Am I correct in thinking they are three legged stands and if so they still wobble?

A couple of granite or oak chopping boards per side? Only about a tenner each.

You can restore the pile of the carpet afterwards by dampening it with a little water and then letting it dry out.

I was given a design for "roller feet" but couldn't find a company that would make a set cheap enough.

Might just have to go for the old spike to cup type

I bought two sets of these as a start point.

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CD-Player-AMP-Speaker-Turntable-Isolation-Feet-Stands-With-Spring-43x35mm-Lot-4/221335454404?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649

Lots of ideas on application but the start point will be to simply whack them under the speakers and see what they do in their raw state.

Are you using these Westie, since I've recently purchased a set, although still waiting delivery. Forgot your post, I ordered them after reading Jandl's thread on AoS.

Hi Guy. Nice to have another Ela fan on board. I still adore them.

Hi Dave,

you are right, the Rega spikes are long - just not enough mass on top of them to keep the speakers stable when there was carpet between them and the floor!
Not sure how to post pictures, will have a look later.

I was just fiddling about; local stonemason let me have a look in his waste skip for some worktop offcuts (£10 as far as I can remember) and it progressed from there. Very satisfying end result.

I have wondered about putting some mass on top of the cabinets, but I don't want to spoil the look of them.

Thanks for the idea. I did try similar several years ago with lead shot in the T frame at the base, I can't remember exactly why now but it was a relief when I removed the shot (it just didn't sound right/"comfortable"?).
Perhaps a plate at the base would work better, although quite happy now as the Elas are quite stable on the flat stone (unlike when placed on carpet).

(I also tried out removing the T frame and blutacking the speaker to the stone base, but that just confused/"muddied" the sound).

Glad you also like the Ela - I worry about what to do when they finally "give up the ghost', although all is looking and sounding good at the moment.
(I currently have a pair of NVA cube 3's breaking in in the dining room system - they are definitely improving through use in terms of tone).

By this time, we were selling Jura's and we had a nice way of taming the low bass of the mk1 version as well a system (vinyl and digital) which suited these well - bi-amping was amazing with these). ELA2's were absolutely delightful on simple rock, chamber music and folk, but couldn't rock and roll to save their by now elegant lives sadly.

I was told that the loading on ELA's all but removes bass below 80Hz or so as the port output goes out of phase and cancels everything below this frequency. In the dem room (15' x 11') it was fine, but at home, all I could hear was the tweeter - same with Gale 301's I wanted to like. My ES14's really were in a different plane of existence and looking back and had I not gone the ATC route, I could still live with them again I think, although herself hates stands like theirs.

The boxes were made as a 'rectangle' and then sliced from one corner to the other after I gathered from Roy G at the time. The internal partitioning did make for a sturdy carcass I think.

To give an idea of margins Rega were working on (I worked it as approx 400%), ELA's cost Rega £73 to make (not sure if that included shipping to dealers though), trade to us was around £280 and retail inc VAT was £429 or so at the time... Rega's dealer margins weren't high then and still aren't today I gather. I suspect you can double the 1990-ish prices today.