In Reply to: WAF = Zero posted by Big Dave on May 18, 2007 at 22:59:43:
depending on your wife, of course!! :-))
In my second system, I have a pair of bookshelf speakers which I bought with a "normal" kind of stand ... an 11" x 9" spiked steel base-plate, a pair of rectangular cross-section steel tubes (about 2" x 1" and filled with lead shot) and a steel top-plate about 9" x 7".
They were "inoffensive" without looking in any way good! ;-))
I did notice that the suspended wooden floor vibrated when CDs with substantial bass transients was being played. So I decided to have my friendly metal workshop make up a pair which consists of a 9" x 7" x 1/4" aluminium top-plate with 4 splayed tubular aluminium legs welded underneath ... which are spiked to the floor.
These tubular legs are damped with clay-based cat litter (as I wanted to make up a lightweight structure, there was no point filling the aluminium legs with lead shot!). See here:
http://www.audiocircle.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=626&pos=5
I think these look much more interesting than stock stands ... not unobtrusive, certainly,but "purposeful"!! And they also work well, too, in that the floor is excited less by bass transients because the four spikes are at the corners of a much larger rectangle than with riginal stands, with their 11" x 9" base plate! :-))
So will your wifey go "eek" or will she approve of something like this?
Regards,
Andy
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