So, what's the consensus on fancy speaker stands? Do they really make a big difference?
Will anything that keeps your speakers at the right place in the room and at the right height basically do the trick? Or is there a significant advantage to be had from buying or building special purpose stands?
The reason I'm asking is... I've got my Paradigm Studio/20's sitting on a pair of fairly wobbly wooden tables that I happened to have around. They work just fine for positioning the speakers, but they offer no damping or coupling to the floor (by the way, is there any agreement on which of those is preferred?). I'm also not really happy with the bass I'm getting, and I'm wondering if I ought to build a pair of solid stands, or if I'd be better off putting that time and money towards a subwoofer.
Will anything that keeps your speakers at the right place in the room and at the right height basically do the trick? Or is there a significant advantage to be had from buying or building special purpose stands?
The reason I'm asking is... I've got my Paradigm Studio/20's sitting on a pair of fairly wobbly wooden tables that I happened to have around. They work just fine for positioning the speakers, but they offer no damping or coupling to the floor (by the way, is there any agreement on which of those is preferred?). I'm also not really happy with the bass I'm getting, and I'm wondering if I ought to build a pair of solid stands, or if I'd be better off putting that time and money towards a subwoofer.
Thanks for the recommendation. I finally got around to building some stands this weekend. I used particle board for the top and bottom and 4" ABS drain pipe for the legs. Glued toilet flanges to the ends of the pipe, and attached them to the particle board using carriage bolts. I also lined the uprights with garbage bags and filled them with sand, to give the whole thing a little heft. Total cost: around $45 (half of that was for the flanges) and an afternoon's work.
They do make a small but noticeable improvement. Interestingly, from up close the improvement is night and day, but across the room on the sofa it's a much subtler difference. I take that to mean that my living room is doing more damage to the sound than the old wobbly tables were, and I ought to be looking into room treatments before anything else.
They do make a small but noticeable improvement. Interestingly, from up close the improvement is night and day, but across the room on the sofa it's a much subtler difference. I take that to mean that my living room is doing more damage to the sound than the old wobbly tables were, and I ought to be looking into room treatments before anything else.
I built these stands out of MDF. They have "T" nuts ofr spikes or rubber feet and are sand fillable. I can stand on them without any problem. They are pretty solid...
http://quadesl.com/albums/stands.html
I have them painted in a textured black paint.
Sheldon
http://quadesl.com/albums/stands.html
I have them painted in a textured black paint.
Sheldon
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