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You can't do audio and not know about hypotenuses! lol! How far away are you sitting from the plane of the speakers? If I get bored over the next couple of days, I'll work it out for you.

Tower fronts are 12 feet from the center of the couch, my "sweet" spot! Tower centers are 9' apart. Any input would be helpful! Time to read up on hypotenuses. Hopefully my chronic math alergies won't kick in!

Look at isoaccoustics stands.

Arch, I'm not surprised that Axiom wouldn't really be able to answer your question as every room and scenario will be different.

When I was a kid, I build a turntable base to isolate the TT from infrasonics/bass. It was basically a "topless" box filled with sand, with a plywood, undersized "top" that the turntable sat on. This de-coupled the TT from sitting on anything other than that one piece of plywood, which touched nothing but sand. It worked well, and the same general design could be reworked for a speaker.

Still, though, bass waves are going to travel through floors if the speakers are playing loudly, though decoupling them might help.

Buy sand from Home Depot so you don't import Platypus eggs from the beach and wake to a room full of baby platypuss' (plattypussi?).

I don't have a photo so made this up to help describe what I'm talking about:

Is your sitting area on your wood suspended floor or is the wood suspended floor a "stage" for your speakers?

A flooring store, or a place where you can buy stone for counter-tops may have samples of polished granite or marble which you could stack. Should be pretty inert.

Mojo, my whole house is a suspended floor. Built in 1925, about 2.5 feet off the ground,1' thick subfloor covered with 1' thick pine boards.
I am familiar with using granite, slate, soapstone, Corian and sandboxes to isolate equipment. I know all of these "treatments" effect the sound of the equipment, either good, bad or no change.
That's why I asked the initial question, so as to get pointed in the right direction and possibly narrow my experimental options down. I really do appreciate the responses, I is humbling as a new "poster' to have others take the time to think and respond!

Hey, we're awesome people here!

We are! And the folks at Axiom are, too. In fact, they may be able to CNC a [name your height] speaker shaped pedestal in a finish that matches yours. There would be the obvious seam, but those not in the know wouldn't see it if you didn't say anything.

Hmmmmm....I think if you hear a difference with the tweeters 4 to 5 inches higher, then you may want to try 4 to 5 inch spikes. I don't know if there is such a thing.