As you can see it is slightly less functional because of the angled back which protrudes forwards, obscuring some vertical desk space. It also has no adjustable height. However I think it looks better than the K&M 26772 stands. The 26772 have the ugly knob on front (which I think they should have reversed and put on the back) and look a bit too industrial. But overall they seem to be the best option for me right now, and perhaps the sagging can be mitigated by sliding the speakers back on the stand. Anyway I don't even know how big of an issue the sagging is yet, I've just been reading reviews online.
About the lack of interest, yes I think we're not a huge market. Professionals probably have speakers standing on a raised table or on floor stands. Normal people on the other hand mostly care about looks over audio quality. And I understand why, I personally think lifted speaker stands look quite bad and prefer speakers placed directly on the table with angled stands underneath e.g.
Btw these nice looking angled stands are the "Dynaudio SF 1 Desk and sideboard stand". Kanto also makes an angled stand called the "Kanto S6 Desktop Speaker Stands".
The problem with these angled stands is: 1. I don't think they mitigate table reflections as much as lifted stands. 2: a lot of them don't angle the speakers high enough to point at your ears when in a near field application. 3. they take up a lot of desk space as it's impossible to place anything underneath the speakers. On the other hand they do look a lot better and the speakers are very stable with no wobble.
Now I think about it, when it says the Kanto angled stands a 6.9in height, it better not be counting the back of the stand that keeps the speaker from sliding back. It should be 6.9in of speaker elevation otherwise that spec would be beyond stupid.
I do think the Kanto stands look good. Arguably better than the custom Etsy solutions I linked last time. I agree with you that they look way better than the Konig & Meyer.
I've mentioned the Kanto SP6HD multiple times in this thread so far and I lamented at the fact that the SP9 has a smaller top plate and holds a smaller speaker. That's just absurd. As the other user pointed out, it's still possible to just 2 SP9s and use that as a stand for each speaker. There will be tradeoffs there in terms of looks, but 9in gets me pretty solidly into the green zone.
When you mentioned the angled stands don't mitigate table reflections as much, are you talking about the shorter stands like the Dynaudio one? That would make more sense since those barely lift the speaker at all. The SE6 is taller than the SP6HD and also angles up. If anything I thought a 7in angled stand reduces table reflections more than a 7in normal stand. We're still working with no real knowledge of how far up a speaker needs to be to reduce desk reflections by X amount though.
Your final picture with the SP6HD really shows off how good speaker stands can look. I think they look cleaner than the SE6, but if SE6 has that nearly 1 inch advantage + tilt up, then that would win me over. Then there's the matter of that vs the SP9 or dual SP9, trading even more aesthetics for even more functionality.
That said, I've seen some speakers visually shake and vibrate when cranked to very high volumes, and I can't imagine that vibration doesn't add some noise? So having a bit of vibration dampening material under the speakers can't hurt. But I think getting the very expensive isoacoustic stands is way overkill.
The problem I've seen with some reviews and "testing" is that the variables are not isolated. Reviewers will both lift up the speakers and put vibration dampening materials underneath, so how do they know which variable made the change?
I'd imagine if one was using regular bookshelves on the desk and they were going so hard they were vibrating, one has larger problems to sort out than the choice of stands... Also the Isoacoustic ones are popular but maybe this is the WAF in my setting in, but they look really ugly. I'd rather use yoga blocks. They also have no color options (not that it would help in this case) and cost a lot for what they are.
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I still think these look decent from Etsy (though they all cost like $200+ but they can be customized for height):
Wood bottom + metal top. Can be painted white. But it's metal up top and they can't send me a close up of how the finish looks because nobody on Etsy knows how to do photography.
My friend doesn't like these but I think they can look nice if a tabletop is of a similar looking wood OR if it's white. If the top of the table is white these wooden stands serve as wooden "accents". I'm no interior decorator though. Wish I was!