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It's like a mercedes with cheap after market rims. So get the originals.
It's like a mercedes with cheap after market rims. So get the originals.
OK I can CANCEL this order..... I just bought these https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B073HVDB82/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
£53 Amazon wearhouse deal.
Correct. Stand top should be no bigger than speaker size. For connecting speaker to stand top, use blutack - works great for resonance control and sticking speaker to stand. with no damage:
https://www.amazon.com/Blu-Tack-S05...ocphy=9008463&hvtargid=pla-321151331657&psc=1
Those look much nicer than the ones I mentioned for not too much more. Also Amazon US has them for the same number but in US dollars.
Somebody save me - I jest, DO NOT tell me what I want to hear, tell me what you really think. Should I buy decent speaker stands or should I spend a fortune on the 'recommended official' stands.
Normally I would say the latter but for small speakers like the Concept 20's they're visually oversized I think.
I filled my stands with https://www.customdesign.co.uk/Cust...tabites-inert-filler-atabites-atabites-atabit.
Stands do not significantly change the sound quality, unless the stand either has some significant resonance or rattling issue (unlikely unless it's seriously defective), or the top plate is sized incorrectly to comic proportions. Stands that are too large with some 'ledge' (like what @leonroy shows above) is in theory at risk of causing some reflection/diffraction effects that change the sound, but I doubtful that it would be audible unless the 'stand' is the size of a dinner table or office desk
So when considering paying more for high quality stands, make sure you're getting your money's worth in the following dimensions:
After owning a few $100 - $200 pairs of stands, I bought the K&M 26795 stands for my Genelec speakers (which I got for about $450 USD/pair shipped via Thomann), and was very pleasantly surprised by the HUGE difference in stability. Every speaker stand I owned prior felt precariously unstable if you ever tested what happens if you gently push on the top (it would rock back and forth), whereas the K&M 26795 stands are ridiculously solid as if stone pillars were growing out from the floor. This is due to their large and heavy cast iron base plate (17.5kg 450mm^2 =~ 38.6lbs 19"^2).
- Nonfunctional build quality / fit-and-finish / subjective aesthetics [1]
- Solidity and stability (e.g. imagine bumping into it, what happens?)
[1] But, let's not forget though that aesthetics are indeed an important factor. I am of the mindset that we should not compromise sound quality for aesthetics, but when it comes to speaker stands it's not likely going to change the sound quality at all. So there is nothing wrong with paying a little more to improve the aesthetics of a furniture-like addition to your home, which speakers are.
Yeah that's another good point that is often forgotten: Sometimes the price of high quality stands (like those designed specifically for a particular bookshelf speaker) plus the price of the bookshelf speakers will cost almost as much as tower speakers from the same manufacturer/brand!Years ago, under the influence of lore that said stands were hugely important, I had the idea of sidestepping the high price tags by building my own. The idea was to make them out of big chunks of threaded / flanged iron pipe bolted to plywood. I designed the things and then called plumbing supply shops to price them out. Turns out they would have been the most expensive stands imaginable. Who knew that custom cut and threaded 3" pipe was a luxury item?
So I just got tower speakers.
I kept the plastic foil underneath my Revel M106's and use bluetack . Might buy the original stands if I get a good deal on them.Great tip thank you. Stable and with some good pads underneath the speaker (feet)? Like rubber or foam pads? Resonance exists right so SOME truth to decoupling? In fact is decoupling the most underrated aspect?
Oh and from what you're saying I should make sure the flat area of the stand the speaker sits on IS NOT BIGGER than the speaker?