I wouldn’t say they’re snake oil, but they are expensive. Also, the fact that the legs are not totally vertical when aligning to the floor means that you’re stuck with using them with their pinpoint feet.
I wouldn’t say their snake oil, but they are expensive. Also, the fact that the legs are not totally vertical when aligning to the floor means that you’re stuck with using them with their spiked feet.
When the announcer does start talking about how the stands improve or optimize the sound of your speaker, that is when he lost me.
This again is one of those situations where you were looking for something to not add anything to the sound of the speaker. It will not improve the sound of the speaker at all.
One thing that I did find out by doing some research is that they are actually not solid. The legs are hollow. This means that the legs are going to vibrate if you play the speaker loudly. You’ll need to add some steel shot and sand into the legs too deaden them.
Also, this whole bit about having the top plate, suspended by ball bearings, and how that improves the sound of the stand… aaah, no.
In the past, I’ve owned less expensive stands, which I then filled with sand and shot and put SV sound subwoofer on them, and did that effect.
It cost me less than half of what these stands do, and the speaker stands were incredibly dead to vibrations, and the subwoofer were fantastic at isolating the whole system from the floor.
So, no, not snake oil, but certainly not as effective as they could be and expensive.