monitor stands

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Hi Ollie

I'm going to try to say this without sounding like a f*cking salesman but as you're in the UK check out Ardan Audio's elevation pro speaker stands (products « Ardan Audio) if you're looking for small format desktop speaker stands.
I purchased demo stock from a dealer here in Aus and they are brilliant (but very expensive).
They'll no doubt be cheaper over there without the transport, insurance, import and handling costs added to Australian retail prices.
[No, I don't work for them or sell their products]

Dags
 
just had a quick google of that Dags as i was intrigued...... and if it's these ones than the UK price is still fairly ridiculous.

I went for some of these but mainly because i knew little monitor pads wouldn't raise my monitors up high enough and don't have space for floor mounted stands, but they are still quite pricey (although, i must admit, after two days use i'm more than a little impressed by them!)
 
ollie99 said:
I can confirm that all this is very true. Coffee doesnt matter as much though, I think it's more of an american thing maybe?
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it's because the Queen doesn't like coffee, therefore she doesn't care where it ends up as long as it's nowhere near her.

that's also the reason that one must have separate drinking utensils for different hot beverages; a mug is for coffee (or tea on a construction site), a bone china cup and saucer is for tea
 
Justsomeguy said:
just had a quick google of that Dags as i was intrigued...... and if it's these ones than the UK price is still fairly ridiculous.
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Yeah, that's them. Like you I don't have space for floor mounted stands and the e-desk I'm using has the monitors placed up on the top of end rack units on castors (which also support the desk) so the speakers were always firing above my head.
I had to slide my chair right back to listen to what was happening when I'm mixing. The Ardans were the only thing on the market which would allow me to tilt the speakers to fire *down* to my mix position (with some thinking-outside-the-box setup of the stands)
I admit I was desperate, and these came along when I was at my most vulnerable ;)

Very happy with them though. Given they can support Adam S3X-H speakers which weigh in just under 20Kg they are sturdy little buggers.

Dags
 
Am sure that Red Green could make some of those with the handy man's secret weapon ..... Duck Tape! :thumbs up:
 
Dude, i know how you feel (hence my isoacoustic purchase). They are both the kind of stands that fit quite a particular need so i suppose they can charge as much as they want as they know that the people likely to buy then will have little alternative. i did look at some sort of DIY approach and some pads but i saw the isoacoustics and as i could get them at a much more reasonable price than the advertised price it made sense :)
 
The smaller of the pair of isoacoustic stands in the photo looks like it holds the speaker inclined (or declined). They might have done the trick as long as the speaker doesn't start sliding off the unit! :)

LOL - in hindsight it might have been cheaper for me to purchase a longer, deeper desk to hold my mixer, computer monitors and speakers and a couple of separate rack units!
 
yeah, both the small and long poles can have a tilt (either back or forward) but it seems much more pronounced on the smaller poles. it's done by adding some little pegs to the front or back poles that add up to about 1.5 cm to the poles they're in, giving a subtle but effective tilt. i've got mine of the longer poles tilted down and it's enough to get them at the right height and firing in the right place and i have no fear of the monitors sliding off as they are pretty solid and the plate for the monitors to stand on is covered in some kinda crazy grippy rubber stuff
 
Steenamaroo said:
Hey! You don't f**k around when it comes to tea!!!!
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Sorry steen. You are, of course, absolutely right. i'll have to go and give myself 20 lashes with my wollyslapper before spending an afternoon in my iron maiden to think about what i've done. :spank:

Although, i will say, in my defence, that whatever tea my better half has bought at the moment isn't really hitting the spot. normally she has impeccable taste but these teabags taste a bit like salted dish water and the bags themselves look like something straight out of 1984 (the book, not the year.... or maybe both..... bleugh!). Even as a hardened southerner, my years in the north have led me to develop a penchant for yorkshire tea, and unless it's twinings or some loose leaf stuff served with the appropriate silverware then nothing else really hits the spot

i fear i may have become a tea snob :facepalm:
 
tbf, since getting in to teaching my intake of coffee has increased dramatically, although i'm nowhere near as snobbish about coffee as i am about tea. nothing screams lecturer more than the stench of cheap coffee, stale smoke, and despair on a tweed jacket
 
Aw man, That's so true.

It's no longer about enjoyment; It's about staying alive!
 
One day Borris will be king, and there will jesters on every street corner and a birds nest in everyones hair
 
I drink coffe by the gallon too but then i had a miss spent youth in France.
No excuse for an english man i guess. I hope her majesty isnt the next question and answer or Boris for that matter

Henry must have been watching Keith lemon another great english export. All in favour say I

"And the scores are shit*ing"
 
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