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Old 05-26-2016, 04:14 AM
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The body and pad under the Hard Hat are each tapped at 1/4-20. (From Sticky in Stillpoints forum) My understanding is that any existing feet/spikes are removed and the adaptor screws into the speaker. The Stillpoint is then attached to the other end of the adaptor. I wasn't trying to suggest you had it wrong, but with only the photo to go on, it seemed different and I was curious as to how well they worked that way.
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Sorry, still have no idea what you are talking about. If you remove the hard hat there is the male screw, not any female to screw the adaptor in - see pic below.

You can only screw you adaptor into the top like in the 2nd picture.


How have you done it at the other end?

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Old 05-26-2016, 06:03 PM
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Hi John Sorry, still have no idea what you are talking about. If you remove the hard hat there is the male screw, not any female to screw the adaptor in - see pic below. You can only screw you adaptor into the top like in the 2nd picture. How have you done it at the other end? cheers

When my Stillpoints dealer installed SS under my Sophia 3 speakers, he took the hat off then that screw you see comes out and you put the adapter in that fits the Wilson speakers. That's the way Stillpoints recommeded. The idea is to get the technology packet as close to the component as possible. The packet is right beneath the hat. The other way works too but you are not directly coupled to the technology packet. I'm sure there are many ways to skin this cat and you are likely not leaving much if any performance improvement by doing it the way you rigged up. I'm sure your Wilson's sound awesome no matter what they are sitting on.
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When my Stillpoints dealer installed SS under my Sophia 3 speakers, he took the hat off then that screw you see comes out and you put the adapter in that fits the Wilson speakers. That's the way Stillpoints recommeded. The idea is to get the technology packet as close to the component as possible. The packet is right beneath the hat. The other way works too but you are not directly coupled to the technology packet. I'm sure there are many ways to skin this cat and you are likely not leaving much if any performance improvement by doing it the way you rigged up. I'm sure your Wilson's sound awesome no matter what they are sitting on.
Thanks for the explanation. Sounds like I have something to do on the weekend.

I hope the screw under that hat comes out easily. Any potential small level of improvement in this hobby is worth exploring.

Will revert. Cheers
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Thank you j3brow for your additional contribution. With my health problems, I was finding it difficult to get my thoughts together to answer turntable.
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- If I understand your UltraSS's correctly from the picture, you can remove the top hat and thread the adapter into where it was. The idea being the supported source is closer to the isolation internals, which is preferred. It also gives a broader base on the downside. ...
My experience had the threaded connector come off with the top hat - of course its now obvious that's not always so! The portion of the threaded connector in the base is short compared to the section that threads into the hat.

If only the hat comes off look closely at the exposed threaded connector. On mine it will accept a 1/8" hex key which makes removal quite easy.

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Only one screw came out easy, I had to use the hex key for all the others.

Had to go down one block step to go with the lower height as that was the largest difference in sound. Not much difference in sound after change of height, but perhaps prefer the sound with the hats on and facing down.
with each speaker being 425lb's, the Stillpoints seem to work just as effectively up or down.


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I’m planning on fitting my Ultra 5s under the Alexia’s soon. Keen to know since I am putting them on carpet if I should purchase the Stillpoints Spikes And base.



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