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The ones I linked specify they have 2 inch holes.Standard weight plates have a 25mm diameter hole. Olympic weights have a 2” hole. I’ve never seen one personally. But I’m not a gym rat.
The ones I linked specify they have 2 inch holes.Standard weight plates have a 25mm diameter hole. Olympic weights have a 2” hole. I’ve never seen one personally. But I’m not a gym rat.
Yes, but I wonder how many stand mount speaker models from KEF, B & W, Proac over $2K each even have a single tapped screw hole. Like I would ever risk doing so myself, and void the warranty doing so. What a sick joke all of this is.Personally I don't trust anything other than bolting to the stand. But then, I wanted studio monitors in the first place so it wasn't a big conflict.
Sorry, I don't see protruding bolt heads.Am I missing something here? There are bolt heads protruding where the speaker base would be. That seems like a very poor design.
Again, I'm 11 ft from my 32" Toshiba CRT TV, atop a rock solid Toshiba stand which I had miraculously found out on the street. My eyes are happy being nearly dead center with the screen. But for the taller 65" OLED, viewed at about the same distance, I'll need feet with adjustable height. https://www.amazon.com/Universal-Pedestal-Bracket-Replacement-Adjustable/dp/B07MZ7M13M Hopefully, my eyes will again be close to dead center on the screen while the center channel speaker, presumably on some kind of stand in front of the TV, won't obscure the view.Probably around 11 feet. We recently added a console table behind the sectional so it moved up about a foot since I last checked.
Viewing angle feels perfectly natural to me. But I guess that’s preference. It comes down to what matters. The dirty little secret of HT is that the audio needn’t be spot on as long as doesn’t crap out. Why do you think the abomination that is the toppled MTM center channel persists!?!
So ultimately one decides if the TV or music is the priority, and proceeds accordingly.
I don't get it. You said blu tak damaged your speaker's finish but then it appears that you went ahead and used it again. What about using velcro? Or carefully applied strips of 2" wide gaffers tape? No carpentry skills at all, nor any tools. My brother's a pro carpenter but we hate each other so that's no option. Nice cat! Missing my black boy cat a long time.View attachment 252747Blutack has proven too sticky and has ripped off veneer from the bottoms of several DIY speakers.
There couldn’t be a much easier diy project than speaker stands. I was able to acquire some timber cut offs which helps. MDF top and base.
Some friction based connection like cork or blutack or a mechanical connection between speaker and stand is required though. One attempt by the cat to jump o or off could be a disaster.
Actually, after realizing that myself I then reached out for feedback. https://www.avsforum.com/threads/do...ave-bottom-screw-holes.3263263/#post-62212560If mounting speakers is something important to OP, buy speakers that are appropriate for mounting. Pretty much all of the studio monitors have robust and flexible solutions so they can be mounted on poles, walls, VESA plates, and more. Neumann and Genelec have a wide variety of adapters for this purpose.
I’m not sure why you’re so flabbergasted that there are products being sold that don’t meet the requirements of your use case. Just buy something that does.
I've read that if you use enough it's pretty secure but I have my doubts. it would be simple to buy some and test it yourself with some kinda box or appliance or anything though.
I’d strongly suggest you should have a listen for yourself as there are many of use enjoying studio monitors for home listening. Speakers that are accurate (unforgiving?) is not a bad thing - and this label is interestingly not slapped on highly accurate home speakers.As for excellent studio near field monitors like Neumann and Genelec, they are obviously designed to be very unforgiving of nearly all flaws in source material, as Riechert here found out when playing an otherwise great recording that had included a segment hit with too much compression. https://www.stereophile.com/content/genelec-g-three-active-loudspeaker
I bought the blue tack and put it on two sets of speakers I made around the same time. One one I accidentally set the speaker on the stand upside down so that when I moved it it destroyed the veneer on the ‘top’ of the box. This was several years ago. So they had to remain upside down to hide the damage. Original CSS mid-woofer driver and a Tangband tweeter. The ones with the cat I just damaged recently as I forgot about the bluetack and attempted to adjust the speaker on the stand and tore veneer off the bottom. They have Scanspeak drivers. 2905/9500 tweeter and 15w/8530 K01. Cat sitting on the Scanspeak units. CSS in this picture.
I don't get it. You said blu tak damaged your speaker's finish but then it appears that you went ahead and used it again. What about using velcro? Or carefully applied strips of 2" wide gaffers tape? No carpentry skills at all, nor any tools. My brother's a pro carpenter but we hate each other so that's no option. Nice cat! Missing my black boy cat a long time.
What speakers? DIY or what brands/models?
Back to the drawing board?? I just realized that unless these were something like full range electrostatic stand mount speakers they will all contain pretty powerful magnets in their drivers. Of course the inverse square law comes into playThe ones I linked specify they have 2 inch holes.
NO distortion, ever, thank you! But a speaker can doesn't have to have higher distortion (harmonic or intermoduation) than the Genelec G3's to be less analytical of the audio signal sent to. For example, the passive Yamaha NS-10m's were used by countless studios to mix many hit recordings. I read that they were popular because, among other reasons, their midrange band was elevated on average by about 4 or 5db, which made it easier for engineers to catch and eliminate performer errors, acoustical and/or electronic noise, distortion or other garbage. But ask most engineers if the NS-10m's would be their choice for a home listening speaker and most would give you a flat out no, because, possibly along with other reasons, it would too often lay bare flaws in their own music collections, rendering them practically unlistenable.I’d strongly suggest you should have a listen for yourself as there are many of use enjoying studio monitors for home listening. Speakers that are accurate (unforgiving?) is not a bad thing - and this label is interestingly not slapped on highly accurate home speakers.
Think about it, what sort of distortion would you want a speaker to add that would make them more forgiving?
You might want to consider these instead - substantially more sturdy.BINGO??? This adjustable height speaker stand with 44 pound capacity.
https://www.k-m.de/en/products/spea...peaker-stands/26734-speaker-stand-black?c=189
But I would want at least a 55 pound weight added to the base for safety. There are these 11 pound weights. https://www.k-m.de/en/products/spea...ional-weight-for-base-plates-structured-black
Unfortunately, five of those weights for each of the four stands I need would be crazy expensive.
https://www.fullcompass.com/prod/600097-k-m-26709-weight-plate-for-m20-base-5-kg
Therefore, I'm asking the brand if the stand’s pole will fit through the hole in this 55 pound barbell?
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Preenex-...-for-Pro-School-Home-Gyms-Set-of-2/1937172631
Also, asking how many of what type of speaker mounting platform (s) are available to use with this stand.
Fantastic!! Really great thinking! I can't exploit that leash idea as all four of my speakers will be too far from walls. But that strap around the speaker, how exactly did you secure them to the platform? It looks like screws though some kind of plastic piece that fused to the strap and screwed into a wood platform? Photos?View attachment 253088
My solution, in a house with a 3 and a 5 year old. A leash made from aircraft cable and a carabiner. Speakers held to the stands with a Velcro strap. Lots of slack in the speaker wire so I can unclip and bring the stands into the room.