Speaker/monitor stands

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Hey this is a great question actually?


More interesting though has anyone actually made their own stands? I have a few ideas for building my own but i am curious if it would be worth while.

I read the manual that came with my KRK's and they said the "ideal" placement was at ear level with the center of the cones turned to a 60degree angle to me....

My desk will not accomodate this placement so i have been toying with the idea of building my own?


Anyone?
 
equilateral triangle in theory for proper placement. i.e. all sides the same length, each inner angle 60 degrees.

Given that each monitor makes an old style phone book seem light, I'd be hesitant to DIY a structure strong enough to hold them. Although cinder blocks with a mouse pad on top might be worth a try.
 
Shadow_7 said:
equilateral triangle in theory for proper placement. i.e. all sides the same length, each inner angle 60 degrees.

Given that each monitor makes an old style phone book seem light, I'd be hesitant to DIY a structure strong enough to hold them. Although cinder blocks with a mouse pad on top might be worth a try.
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By day i am an engineer (Civil, Structural and Oil Field) and am surrounded by other like minded lunkheads. I think i could make one sturdy enough, i guess thats not the issue it's more like materials i could use to make it most practical and use oriented.

One of the douche bags i work for suggest making the entire apparatus out of high density foam, but like you said ... there is substantial weight to one monitor.

But i didn't rule it out. I could by all intents and purposes fashion a pedestal from lamented panels of HDF and core it out and use a hardwood dowel through the centre about an inch and half to two inch DIA, and have all other suppots to the floor to the platform be built off that?

I don't really see the merits to that concept but it's fun to listen to these know it all colleagues of mine figure out sound.

I was thinking for the platform to rest the monitors on, be made of two layers of old acoustic ceiling tiles with a a small strip of that foam carpet underlay on top? Maybe. I don't know. Then realistically what ever i mount that platform on could be made of anything? yea?

Triangulation strengthens anything. Nice to see that principle applied to sound.
 
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