Blue Horizon's Ultimate Spike Shoes are designed to sit beneath the spikes that support floorstanding speakers and speaker stands. They serve a dual purpose: firstly, they protect flooring and secondly, they enhance sound quality by suppressing resonance that leads to sonically damaging microphony in audio components.
It is the second of these functions that sets them apart form other spike shoes on the market. Uniquely, the aluminium outer casing of each spike shoe is filled by a combination specially chosen materials. The first of these is an extremely dense material placed directly beneath the indentation in which the spike sits, allowing spike loading of up to 100kg.
This is surrounded by a proprietary mixture of materials at opposite ends of the elasticity spectrum. The differing resonant frequencies of these materials ensure that resonance is damped equally across the audio band, rather than simply delivering a tonal shift. The combination of improved coupling and effective resonance control delivers clearly audible benefits, opening up the sound and improving definition from bass through to treble.
Point loading 100Kg
Diameter 38mm
Height (outer) 8mm
Height (centre point 6.5mm
Silver finished metal outer casing
Reinforced metal plate allows spike loading of up to 100Kg
Extremely dense material which is a proprietary mixture of materials at opposite ends of the elasticity spectrum which damps resonance equally across the audio band
Product Reviews
"The sound showed noticeable improvements in both the tonal depth of all instruments, and in the focus of the soundstage... An effective, value-for-money product that displays considerable thought and attention to its quality"
Hi-Fi World Magazine
It is the second of these functions that sets them apart form other spike shoes on the market. Uniquely, the aluminium outer casing of each spike shoe is filled by a combination specially chosen materials. The first of these is an extremely dense material placed directly beneath the indentation in which the spike sits, allowing spike loading of up to 100kg.
This is surrounded by a proprietary mixture of materials at opposite ends of the elasticity spectrum. The differing resonant frequencies of these materials ensure that resonance is damped equally across the audio band, rather than simply delivering a tonal shift. The combination of improved coupling and effective resonance control delivers clearly audible benefits, opening up the sound and improving definition from bass through to treble.
Point loading 100Kg
Diameter 38mm
Height (outer) 8mm
Height (centre point 6.5mm
Silver finished metal outer casing
Reinforced metal plate allows spike loading of up to 100Kg
Extremely dense material which is a proprietary mixture of materials at opposite ends of the elasticity spectrum which damps resonance equally across the audio band
Product Reviews
"The sound showed noticeable improvements in both the tonal depth of all instruments, and in the focus of the soundstage... An effective, value-for-money product that displays considerable thought and attention to its quality"
Hi-Fi World Magazine
