Dirk… you crack me up! 
Laughing out loud. So funny.
A classic, Dirk!
Just curious, does Magico or Esoteric have a great forum like PS Audio?
Not a company facilitated forum. Just an owners forum.
Magico Man, I wouldn’t expect anything less, but you do realise elephant epoch is woolly mammoth … You always have to be constantly outdoing all forum members – trailing behind you, even down to the historical significance of the elephant. That said, elephants walked across the Alps but you can’t get your one to even lift a speaker for you ? Nothing Magico about that…! 
He/she/it would. But the white cotton gloves that were supplied for speaker manipulation purposes don’t fit his/her/its trunk.
So Magico failed ? The speakers will be more stable now on three spikes with no micro-rocking across the corners ?
Each speaker weighs 320 lbs so good luck with upsetting any micro-instability whether they are on pods or spikes, carpet or concrete.
It will always be more stable on 3 spikes. 4 spikes, regardless of weight, one is always on the verge of rocking…?
I’m not so certain about that. The 4 spike arrangement is embedded in concrete at some ridiculous PSI at point of contact. The 3 pods will be sitting on carpet, i.e. not embedded in concrete. I suspect the 3 pods will be slightly more micro-unstable than the 4 spikes.
I would prefer 3… Why do you think a theodolite is on a tripod ?
A theodolite sits on 3 legs with spikes embedded in ground. Fundamentally different to 3 pods sitting on an ample thickness of carpet.
NO - No: Not bedded in the ground. Building work at my place and it was sitting on concrete but it doesn’t matter if the surface isn’t 100% level because the contact area is in a triangle… Same as an artist easel… Why do Magic supply a 3 point option ? Anyway, if you aren’t convinced then why buy 3 point option…
Ground, concrete, asphalt, pixie dust or whatever. Take the spikes off the theodolite tripod and just sit the 3 tripod leg stumps on a piece of carpet and underlay and see how accurate your theodoliting becomes.
When the 3 point option sits on a solid surface, then its stable. When it’s floating on carpet, which gets compressed to different depths in various ways, that’s different. I bought them just to try. No harm in trying, unless it falls on me during the installation 
Leave them for a few days so that they settle into the carpet before you reject them. Why not sit them on three spiked supports… They will settle into the carpet pile after a few days.
Magico don’t give you the option of a 3 spike installation system with this speaker.