Monitor Isolation

[MatthewRedStars]

Hi.

My monitors are stuck on my desk well below ear level. I plan to make some plywood boxes to raise them up. In order to decouple them from the desk i plan to fill the boxes with something heavy (sand?) and pop a piece of dense foam under each.

Is this a reasonable plan? Overkill? Underkill? My set up doesn't deserve much more effort.

Thanks in advance,
Matthew

[Jamz0r]

I just got some Auralex MoPads to remedy that very same problem.

Since they are wedge shaped, you can angle your speakers to point more at your ears, while also isolating the speakers from your desk.

[studiomaster]

You can also use an empty cardboard box to isolate your monitors from the desk...(extremely cheap method)

[Jamz0r]

Cheap....and ugly! lol

[Lt. Bob]

yeah but cardboard boxes are gonna have some resonance to them ..... probably color the sound a little or even a lot.
If you want to go to the trouble ..... the sand filled boxes would work good. I use speaker stands for my good stereo and they're filled with sand and lead shot.

[MatthewRedStars]

Thank you all, i'm excited to see how much difference it will make.

[metalhead28]

I built some simple wooden stands for my monitors, and also got some of the Auralex MoPads to use with them. Improved what I heard at my desk pretty noticably.

[Nick98338]

I also made some wooden stands. I use a boom box and it's speakers for my monitors. I dis-attach the speakers from the boom box, put the speakers on the wooden stands, and put the stands on either side of the monitor screen, and a bit in front of the screen. When I listen, I lean forward near the screen, and my head is then between the speakers.

[Freudian Slip]

Ok No laughing allowed!!!!!! I used the styrofoam packing from the speakers them selves. Worked out pretty well as a cheap ass fix. It's not what I want but I'm not ready to spend a couple hundred on speaker stands. See my fine hand made curved desk LOL.... it works.

F.S.