Not sure if these are any good or even suitable.
I have two sets of Sounddeadsteel squares which I have used under speakers and stands for years. No longer use them so you are welcome to have them if you want to experiment - make a forum donation if you keep them or offer them back up with the same proviso.
One side is heavily scratched up but the other is fairly clean and I don’t see any obvious reason why they can’t be used either way.
The newer Sounddampedsteel squares which I use under my equipment rack have a non slip rubbery coating on one side so can only be used one way round.
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Welcome back!
Wayne will have those off you as hipster coasters.
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Cheers Paul (good to see you back too).
As it happens a solution is winging its way to me but very much appreciate the kind offer. Perhaps another meatman might want to take advantage?
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Triangle make much of their fancy cast-metal speaker bases + front/central mega-spike, and I hate to think how much these useless contraptions add to the cost of each pair - but useless they are.
Opinions vary, but I’ve yet to own any pair of speakers that haven’t sounded better decoupled from suspended wooden floors. My erstwhile Triangle Stratos Naïas always sounded better when they were decoupled, and to that end I made a pair of platforms for them using Auralex ‘Platfoam’ (sold for use in studios &c to decouple drum kits), topped with a platform comprising two stone slabs sandwiching a layer of Sorbothane.
I’m glad I kept the various parts of these - even though they were far too small for the Dreiklangs - because they are now under the Lyrrs and improving their sound:
Their sole disadvantage is that with the Lyrrs being much taller than my old Naïas, stability is not wildly reassuring, especially not when you’ve got assorted dogs and drunk humans bumbling around…
To improve on this I need… . . . …metal bases 
Specifically ones I can use with decopling feet like the Isoacoustics Gaias discussed upthread. The Triangle bases don’t extend far enough forwards, or outwards to be recycled for this purpose, so I’ll have to find a metal-workshop to fabricate a pair.
Much though I’d like to try the very well-reviewed Gaias, a set capable of taking the required weights would cost over £550, which seems bloody stupid overkill for a set of speakers that cost £800…
Instead I contacted noise control experts, Custom Audio Designs, and for a much saner £135 a set of their ‘Small machine anti-vibration mounts’ are on order. The look is certainly industrial -
Counter-intuitively, the heaviest available weight-rating is the best compromise for the job, as these will provide more than adequate decoupling while still being firm enough to be stable and resist the microscopic rocking motion that bass-transducer movement initiates in overly-compliant speaker mounts, an effect which smears imaging, &c.
I’ll report back when everything’s eventually assembled.
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I don’t have the issue anymore as I have a concrete floor and 85kg speakers but I still have a pair of Auralex Gramma isolation platforms in the loft.
They worked very well and are about £100 a platform these days, which while not cheap is still pro/studio and not audiophool prices,
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I have an incoming pair of rega elas from my past. Plan is to have them on the mezzanine in my new pad. So tips for speaker isolation timly and
appreciated
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What sort of weight do the soundcare spikes take?
Do they decouple?
IIRC the Superspikes can take summat daft like 150kg per spike, but they very definitely don’t isolate, they couple.
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Might be worth trying to organise a group buy from Custom Audio Design (possibly via more active forums like Fink Pish) if you want to DIY isolation, I suspect things like the Sylomer blocks they sell would prove cheaper than the Platfoam, and you have more options for loading weights.
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Don’t know if feet for lathes maybe of any use.
Might give some a try on my turntable
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Can’t be a bad shout.
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Super spikes are great for solid floors. I’ve had great experience with the Auralex Gramma platforms in my Suspended wooden floors, really helps reduce vibrations in the floor itself.
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Same old mantra from me, cheap and cheerful ice hockey pucks have always cleaned the bottom end up when on floor boards. May not be the ultimate but effective.
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Whilst lacking sexiness, aesthetic appeal or added fooey fun, Sorbothane (on paper) is hard to beat.
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Looks like Sylomer is used for the isolation
See also: Vox Olympian
Might get some of these for my record deck
See also, post #49…